Contact Xubuntu

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at shimmerproject.org
Sun Jul 14 01:34:27 UTC 2013


I would imagine it's buried somewhere in the IRC logs. There wasn't a 
specific voting conducted about this.

The frontpage of the Xubuntu wiki communicates our decision well. If you 
think it could do better, propose.

Cheers,
Pasi

On 14/07/13 01:44, Joan Advincula wrote:
>
> "This is a specific decision we made a few cycles ago when we realized 
> there was unnecessary and unmaintained overlap between our wiki and 
> our website."
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there somewhere I can read what lead to this decision? (Besides the 
> aforementioned unnecessary and unmaintained overlap, of course.)
>
> I just think that some people do expect a wiki to be... Well, like a 
> lot of other wikis which give users (old and new alike) more 
> information about something. It's probably what Ali was thinking, too.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Joan Advincula, @iamMJae
>
> On Jul 13, 2013 11:32 PM, "Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph" <lyz at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:lyz at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad)
>     <amjjawad at gmail.com <mailto:amjjawad at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I have noticed there is no mention to the general or user
>     Xubuntu Mailing
>     > List whereas almost on every page, there is a mention of the
>     Development
>     > Mailing list. We all know that the general/user mailing list is
>     important
>     > for the user who are not interested to join the development
>     discussions and
>     > seek some help/support.
>
>     I assume you mean there is no mention on our wiki? Please read
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu
>
>     As explained there, our wiki is designed specifically to be
>     collaboration space for current contributors to the Xubuntu project,
>     it's not designed to be a user-facing space. This is a specific
>     decision we made a few cycles ago when we realized there was
>     unnecessary and unmaintained overlap between our wiki and our website.
>     We worked pretty hard to reduce the number of pages we maintain on the
>     wiki.
>
>     Our user-facing space is Xubuntu.org itself, which has very clear help
>     links which include to our IRC channel, mailing list and more.
>
>     --
>     Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
>     http://www.princessleia.com
>
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>     https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
>
>
>


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