On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Jan 5, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> For what it's worth, ask.wireshark.org went online in September 2010,
>> which does line up with the drop in volume on -users and -dev.
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>> Tangentially, is it perhaps worth closing -users in order to
>> consolidate all support into the ask site?
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> There's support and there's discussions. At least as I understand it, a Q&A site doesn't, and isn't intended to, have the same workflow as a mailing list/discussion board. Perhaps "into the ask site and Bugzilla" would work - if a user proposes a new feature, that might better be discussed on an RFE filed on Bugzilla than on the ask site, and Bugzilla also accepts more uploads, such as sample capture files.
Fair enough. That's actually one of the things I like about Ubuntu's
Launchpad - it does double-duty as bug tracker and Q&A tracker, and
questions can be magically converted into bugs or enhancement tickets
with a single click, maintaining full history etc.
> (I also find mailing lists easier to work with than any form of Web-based Q&A site/forum, for a variety of reasons; for one thing, following a mailing list just means "subscribing to it and looking at messages as they arrive", it doesn't mean periodically polling the Web site or looking at an RSS feed reader.)
Also true.