Re: Stability and Gnome's image among users

[Steve Gage <sgage tds net>]

I have been following this thread from the beginning, and I think jack's
point is a good one. Since RH6 has been out for a while, I suspect that
majority of Gnome users are _not_ developers, and a list or even a
newsgroup for users would be justified. In fact, I think it's probably
time for a linux.gnome.* set of groups. Personally, I prefer newsgroups
to mailing lists, but that's just a matter of taste.

Having said that, however, I find that my own questions on this list
have been answered remarkably quickly and in good detail. I guess ymmv. 

- Steve

"jack wallen, jr" wrote:
> 
> this brings up a good point (not that anyone will read this post - seems
> like my posts generally fall on deaf ears) gnome needs a 'users' mailing
> list and i feel it necessary that this list name be changed to reflect
> it's nature.  this is not a user group.  this is a developers group -
> although i thought there was already a dev group available.
> 
> i've posted numerous questions and such that never found responses.  what
> will the average user think if they come seeking help on an 'official'
> like list and never gets it?  probably will turn to another environment
> such as KDE.
> 
> i just think that, if gnome is to become successful, it's going to have to
> change it's target from developers to users.  after all the users are the
> majority of the market - not the developers.
> 
> anyway....can a gnome-user list be created?
> 
> >
> > I understand the situation, and that's OK, and I'm not shocked that
> > what I thought would be a self-support user group is more like a
> > development coordination group, and I appreciate your good will to
> > help end users, too. I just hope you can make the thing work more
> > smoothly, and if you do that, that you say clearly that you did, so
> > that scared users come back.
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
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