[ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

[Alan Burlison]

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> I agree; this is why we set up opensolaris-help.  But even there,
> questions should be about getting up and running (or up and
> developing) with an OpenSolaris-based distribution, not S10 or
> anything else.  And specific questions like "How can I get my e1000g
> NIC to work?" are probably better answered by a distribution-specific
> list or in a relevant community group.  The intent for -help was,
> iirc, to answer questions like "Why did my build fail?" and "Where is
> the source for foo?"
>
> As for opensolaris-discuss, I don't really care.  Noise from newbies
> is the least of that list's problems.  I always recommend
> unsubscribing from it but I guess people are masochists.

I think it's useful to have a 'virtual town square' for OpenSolaris, 
however at the moment opensolaris-discuss seems to be full of learner 
drivers practising their 3-point turns and reverse parking manoeuvres. 
Can't we just do the equivalent of making it a pedestrian-only area?  A 
little light encouragement (telling people where to ask with 
'followup-to' set accordingly) might be worth trying.

Of course that would require that all the helpful people stop relying to 
newbie questions on os-discuss and start moving threads and replying on 
the appropriate forum instead.

Seems to me this might be something the OGB could take a lead on... ;-)

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Alan Burlison
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