Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes ("Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong"): > When a user asks for a question, most usually end up on a web > forum. Developers mostly prefer monitoring hand-picked mailing lists > only. That's where the disconnect is, in my opinion. > > What we need is to relate these interfaces to one another.
I think the problem with user questions is even worse than that. Many developers don't actually want to spend much (or any) time answering user questions. Partly for bad reasons; but also for the very good reason that it doesn't scale. Ian.