Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > It seems to me that this would add another place for people to direct > their questions, without addressing the problem of finding the right > contact point to begin with. The proposal was not to add yet another place to contact folks, but to c

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > 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. IIRC Fedora solved this with mailman3 and hype

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:01:06PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > I've noticed that it is far too easy for folks unfamiliar with Debian > to contact the wrong addresses for their queries. I expect all of the > Debian teams with @debian.org aliases have found something similar. > > This causes var

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > 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. >> W

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Ian Jackson
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 t

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise writes: > This causes various problems, including: I agree with your assessment of the problems. > Create a new contact.debian.org service to help people find the right > contact for their queries before they make contact. It seems to me that this would add another place for people t

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 16:30 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > For specific (package) questions, assign to Individuals/Teams just like bug > > reports. > > These should go to one of our support channels, package maintainers > are for maintaining software/packages rather than answering questions. > > htt

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread juliette Belin
2017-03-21 17:41 GMT+01:00 Don Armstrong : > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > > > Yes. This would be great. An online form, that anyone could use to ask > a > > > question would be nice. > > > > We already have places to ask

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > Yes. This would be great. An online form, that anyone could use to ask a > > question would be nice. > > We already have places to ask questions but people don't know how to > find the right on

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 03/21/2017 09:30 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> Yes. This would be great. An online form, that anyone could use to ask a >> question would be nice. > We already have places to ask questions but people don't know how to > find the right one

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Yes. This would be great. An online form, that anyone could use to ask a > question would be nice. We already have places to ask questions but people don't know how to find the right one. The service or web page I proposed would only be

Re: contacting Debian is too easy to get wrong

2017-03-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Paul, On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 12:01 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > When I was a press team assistant and with the various DSA addresses, > I've noticed that it is far too easy for folks unfamiliar with Debian > to contact the wrong addresses for their queries. I expect all of the > Deb