On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 14:24, s wrote: > > Can all of the messages regarding 9.0, cooker, the release > > candidate, or any of the betas please be posted to the cooker > > mailing list? > > > > This really is not an appropriate forum for those messages and, > > chances are, the developers may not even see them. > > > > The expert list is for Mandrake support on currently released > > products, not "in-progress" products. > > > > Thanks. > > I have to disagree since many like to run these versions and may need > pointers here or there, but can not congest the cooker list which as > I understand it is primarily for the developers and the testers who > can provide real assistance to said developers. I can imagine if > this was to happen as you wish, the cooker list might become off > limits to the general public. > > Just my thoughts.
Then get a bugzilla account. Posting cooker-related mails on expert is counter-productive. Doing so, you expect the developers to subscribe to both lists when they should only really be required to read one. Developers do not always have time to provide general tech-support, which is what the expert list is for. I suppose you would rather have developers spend time reading than working on new apps or fixing bugs? Because that is what would happen. Even sending a message to cooker (without subscribing) indicating the bug and that you are not subscribed so cc in the reply is better than congesting the expert list with unrelated messages. The other alternative, which is probably happening right now, is that bug reports on cooker sent to the expert list are not being noted at all. So the reporter ends up wasting their own time by posting to expert and not cooker and for no gain. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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