Opinions on #ubuntu-discuss (for IRCC meeting)

[Benjamin Kerensa]

Perhaps we can just plan to make better use of it and better promote it?

On Nov 13, 2012 4:44 PM, "IdleOne" <oneidle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I agree with Jussi, although there is very little activity in the channel
it does not cost us anything to keep the channel open.
>
> IdleOne.
>
>
> On 12-11-13 10:05 AM, Jussi Schultink wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Ward
>> <trekcaptainusa-tw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I won't be around for the IRCC meeting, so for all intents and purposes
i'd
>>> like my opinions to be stated anyways.
>>>
>> I likewise won't be around, so I may as well have my say also.
>>
>>> So this is basically quoting from my blog, but...
>>>
>>>
>>> Several IRCC meetings ago, the IRCC decided to try and run an
“experiment”
>>> to move Ubuntu-related non-support out of #ubuntu-offtopic, and into
>>> #ubuntu-discuss.
>>>
>>> While the concept was sound, and was agreed upon in a majority, there’s
>>> some… operational flaws… i think need to be discussed.
>>
>> The concept is still sound, nothing has changed there.
>>>
>>> The IRCC meeting on November 25, 2012, has a discussion on this in its
>>> agenda. I won’t be there to provide my views, since i’m stuck on a bus
all
>>> day that day. But, here’s my opinions:
>>>
>>> * The concept was sound, but there was little to no encouragement for
users
>>> in #ubuntu to bring ubuntu-related discussion to the discuss channel.
>>> * Very little awareness to the community of the -discuss channel
resulted in
>>> very little usage.
>>> * Very little actual discussion was brought up in channels, and where
some
>>> discussion may have occurred, nobody was there to discuss it
>>
>> I agree with you here, there has been very little encouragement, and
>> not much advertising. It was supposed to be that canonical would add
>> this as the discussion channel to their announcements, but that hasn't
>> happened - I suspect because my telling of Jono didn't get through
>> when everything except one important thing flew out of his head.
>>
>> It seems to me that pretty much all of the problems can be remedied by
>> a bit of marketing and advertisement - as you ahve mentioned before,
>> the concept is sound.
>>
>> I would be very disappointed if the channel is removed - there is no
>> reason t remove it, it is not causing any issues, nor ay overhead - we
>> just need to give it some more advertisement, preferably via Factoid
>> and Canonical announcement inclusion.
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>>
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