Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-04-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 22:27 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > POC is trolling sometimes and even the thread starter began > > to believe he did a mistake while verybody with a useable > > mail-client can see that the new subject has it's own thread > > ok - now i have to say sorry to POC in this cas

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-04-04 Thread Reindl Harald
body with a useable > mail-client can see that the new subject has it's own thread ok - now i have to say sorry to POC in this case "Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community" starts in the middle of "auditd is afiled how to enable" and looked only like a own t

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-04-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.04.2013 17:43, schrieb Lailah: > El vie, 29-03-2013 a las 14:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió: >> On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 09:55 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong >> > community" is always cited. >> > >> > May we declare

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-04-04 Thread Lailah
El vie, 29-03-2013 a las 14:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió: > On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 09:55 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong > > community" is always cited. > > > > May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions? If someo

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-30 Thread Gergely Buday
Steven Stern wrote: > If you don't have something nice or helpful to say, don't say it. > > If you need more info, ask for it. If you suspect they don't know what > they're doing, offer some assistance on how they can get that info. > > Quite frankly, if I were a newbie and I had a question and we

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Steven Stern
On 03/29/2013 02:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Oh the humanity! You do realize you hijacked a thread to post this, > don't you? Yes. That was my mistake. I was going to reply in thread, then though I should start a new one. But, I didn't create a new message, just changed the header. I've

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 09:55 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong > community" is always cited. > > May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions? If someone doesn't > give enough info, ask them for more, and that's all. Going off on

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread les
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 16:09 +, davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: > Once again sorry about the top post. > > Afaik, there has never been a foo in the man pages. What I was referring to > was the new people find the jargon in them, if not intimidating, at least > confusing, if they

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread davidschaak1
x27;s is unreal. Just my 0.02 Dave Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity -Original Message- From: Frank Murphy Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:27:43 To: Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Meta-discussio

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:04:22 + davidscha...@mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote: > I > can also remember a time on these support lists that the usual > response to new users questions was 'RTFM'. The manuals were and > still are very technical in jargon that are not very helpful unless > one knows

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:55:28 -0500 Steven Stern wrote: > > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong > community" is always cited. Not so sure Steven. Always figured "FOSS software - a strong community" always pointed to active development, not necessarily use. >

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread davidschaak1
s Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong community" is always cited. May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions? If someone doesn't give

Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.03.2013 15:55, schrieb Steven Stern: > When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong > community" is always cited. > > May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions? If someone doesn't > give enough info, ask them for more, and that's all. Going off on top > postin

Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community

2013-03-29 Thread Steven Stern
When people talk about choosing FOSS software like Fedora, "a strong community" is always cited. May we declare a moratorium on meta-discussions? If someone doesn't give enough info, ask them for more, and that's all. Going off on top posting, depth of quoting, typos, etc makes the list a hosti