Forums vs Mailing Lists

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:34:49PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Corey Burger wrote:
> 
> >To be clear, I don't regard the forums to be noisy, merely that a lot
> >of people don't have a lot of time to follow development news and are
> >thus making statements without the full facts. Thus we could have a
> >"This week in Development" on the fridge or Devel-announce to help
> >people get organized.
> >  
> >
> It would be great to post the regular development updates from Jane
> Weideman to the Forums as well as the lists. Jane, would you do so?
> Corey, could you recommend the right forum's in which those should be
> posted? Also, we coudl automatically post all ubuntu-devel-announce
> stuff to the right forums.

It would presumably be straightforward to echo debian-devel-announce in the
forums, as is done with some other mailing lists.  However, I don't think
that those updates don't provide the sort of education which would be needed
to address the concerns in this thread.  They're at the level of "feature
goal whiz-bang-bar is blocked on the implementation of the fleeble-fly-bat"
whereas the misinformation of the forums is more "Most Ubuntu 'developers'
seem to spend more time as hackers modifying packages to work on Gentoo."
and "Ubuntu doesn't have a root account".

That is, the problem isn't keeping up with the progress of development, so
much as misconceptions about what Ubuntu is and how it works.

-- 
 - mdz