Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote: > I am going to be quite blunt. Please be forewarned.
Likewise. > It is, however, a really bad idea to suggest experimentation should not > be attempted because it might fail. The failure mode here is not > catastrophic; there is no need to be excessively cautious. Painting > doomsday images is uncalled for. I agree with that. Enterprise is good and nice to see. However, equally, we should not lie and all say the emperor's new clothes are fabulous if they aren't. Some people seem concerned that ask.d.n doesn't connect to current support channels and I feel that's a legitimate concern, don't you? Looking more, it would also be very good to let disabled users know that they can use email lists instead, or log in to get rid of those evil eyesight and hearing tests (Google's reCaptcha). How do we do that? > This is "stop energy", pure and simple. > http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy [...] Invoking Dave Winer as a support reference is the second biggest sign that an argument has been lost. Personally, the only thing I wanted ask.d.n's supporters to stop is making misleading statements like "ask.debian.net is not there to replace mailing lists, it is there to add to them". As zack wrote, it is a triviality that it does not. Rather than suggesting people should shut up or making misleading statements about their concerns, I'd acknowledge the concerns, then maybe move on regardless, or consider how to address the concern if it's easy. Maybe a clear FAQ answer that ask.d.n is user-generated and any answers should be taken with care is as good as that could be, or maybe it can be hooked into existing support mailing lists somehow. I can't do it because I don't see an obvious way to subscribe to all answers. But ask.debian.net is an interesting experiment, after all. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101008143836.debce50...@nail.towers.org.uk
