Re: Along the same lines as the CoC

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 3 Aug 2006, at 08:44, Adrian Custer wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> There are two elements of this discussion that I'd like to address:
>
>         (1) Gnomers who are offended by others currently have no place
>         to turn to.
>
>         (2) New Gnomers currently have no place to ask for advice,  
> help,
>         encouragement.
>
> I note also with sadness how dead #gnome has become. Back in the  
> day it
> was a real bazaar with the great coders mixing with the lowly newbies.
> The channel was easy to find and people could ask for help, for  
> advice,
> for consolation, could follow some advanced discussions or could  
> simply
> banter away the day. Today, most of us have decided to be  
> productive and
> so #gnome has a *huge* list of participants and almost no discussion.

In many ways, I don't lament its passing.  IRC isn't really a natural  
place to hang out for many 'ordinary' users, and it's a black hole  
for those of us (i.e. everyone) who needs to be taking users' issues  
on board, because there's no useful record of what people have been  
asking.

Perhaps a more important question is why gnome-list gnome org has  
died on its feet too... I'd much rather our users posted there, and  
(much as I hate web forums) to the gnomesupport.org forums.

Correction: wow, gnome-list hasn't died at all... just checked the  
archives and it's perfectly healthy.  So why have I only had two  
emails from it all year? :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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