From: Tobiasz K. <un...@gm...> - 2014-01-10 16:15:59
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I think that the forum moderator(s) can be the link between users and devs. The forum could have a place for users to contact devs, then a moderator, or another person selected for that task, could pick suggestions made there and pass them to relevant decision-makers and then coders. Or devs could do it themselves and answer directly just focusing on that part of the forum, while mods keep it clean and sorted for fitness. On 10 Jan 2014 16:08, "Alexia Rose" <ale...@ya...> wrote: > Same page, I barely know how to use a mailing list. All I am saying is > there is a lot of users who are not very tech savvy. I am not that bad as I > use Ubuntu but GitHub and SourceForge do scare me. I would never have > switched to Ubuntu if not the user community. Regular users need a friendly > forum. > This should be well planned so the development-related information is not > scattered all over the place to make your work harder. > But I believe the forum is needed mainly because there is much more the > users can contribute aside reporting bugs. > > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:49 PM, Tobiasz Karoń <un...@gm...> > wrote: > I think most (young) people are not used to mailing lists. A forum is > simply friendlier, more familiar to them. None is perfect, but I think that > the mailing list thing can scare a lot of people off. I know I was scared > and still learning how to use the ML. > On 10 Jan 2014 15:44, "Jonathan Aquilina" <eag...@gm...> wrote: > > Good point, But then why not just use the users mailing list? is there > alot of activity there? > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Tobiasz Karoń <un...@gm...> wrote: > > Great point here. This is why I think a forum is needed. Mailing list and > bug trackers could work for programmers, but everyone else needs a > different way of contributing and communicating. If you say to a sample > maker "add this to the master branch" you are gonna confuse and scare him. > Do it for him, as you know how, and he can keep focusing on sounds, not > Github, Sourceforge or whatnot. > The same applies to me ;) > On 10 Jan 2014 15:35, "Alexia Rose" <ale...@ya...> wrote: > > > > It would be great to enable us simple users who do not know programming > to contribute to the community through forum. Everything is geared towards > developing and thus anyone who doesn't do programming is cut off. I made an > account for bug report on SF but it is not a forum for me in spite of it > being called a forum here. Why would a non-programmer make an account on > sourceforge? That makes no sense and if the activity is low, this is why. > Most of the users are just that, users. Some of us could make free loops, > fan art and otherwise contribute to the community. This way we can do > nothing to help you guys. > > > > > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:31 PM, Gurjot Singh < > bha...@gm...> wrote: > > On 10 January 2014 19:52, Tobiasz Karoń <un...@gm...> wrote: > > > If we have both, we have to choose a primary place to store > information. So > > > whatever gets discussed on other places must be concluded there if > there is > > > any conclusion. Otherwise we'll just need to spend more time and energy > > > reading through all places, always in danger of missing something > important. > > > > > > Yes. > > That's the whole point, isn't it? > > We should first take a poll or something and conclude what will > > benefit in the long run. :) > > > > -- > > Gurjot Singh > > Blog: http://bhattigurjot.wordpress.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > _______________________________________________ > > LMMS-devel mailing list > > LMM...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMM...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > > > > |