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Re: [hylafax-users] new community site



Charles Duffy wrote on 04/11/05 05:18 AM:

Lee Howard wrote:

I can understand that a newbie may possibly notice two mailing lists, but in the end they're going to send mail to at least one of them, so in the end all is well.


Mailing lists aren't just for sending mail and getting new answers written to your questions; they're also for searching the archives and finding *old* answers, and for keeping abreast of the project's status.

Searching archives is distinctly inconvenient when those archives are fragmented.

Keeping abreast of project status is more difficult when many relevant messages may be sent only to one list or the other.

Consequently, speaking as a user, fragmented mailing lists are less useful than unified ones when there isn't a clear topical distinction.

As for the Sourceforge Tracker vs. HylaFAX Bugzilla. I think that they're both as usable as the other.


Again, this misses the objection. One of the important things people do with bugtrackers is *search for preexisting bugs*. Even bugs that were closed as INVALID or such on account of the reporter having a misconfigured system are useful as documentation for folks who are experiencing those same issues. Spreading such documentation out is unhelpful.


As Lee saw with the sponsored links, long release cycle, etc, the fact that you don't agree with something, and can argue rationally against it, doesn't mean you can force it to stop. Your comments are true, it _is_ less convenient when there are two mailing lists and two bug trackers, and I think Lee would be wise to keep these concerns in mind. Maybe he did weigh that inconvenience factor and found the get-away-from-the-commercial-sponsor factor was greater. Though I understand you don't like it, and I find it inconvenient too, that is a valid choice for him to make.

Regards.

Martin


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