[rhelv6-list] [rhelv6-beta-list] RHEL7 mailing list

[francis picabia]

My response on this topic is an observation for which I think many of you
can concur.
Mailing lists include informed replies, and are usually answered.
Forums tend to include misinformed responses, silly solutions
like "I installed Gentoo and the problem went away", and postings with no
replies.
My all time favourite is the posting with the exact problem you've seen and
the
OP simply posts: "never mind, the problem is resolved".

For example, if I google a problem and a link for a match is pointing to
Ubuntu forums,
I don't even bother looking at it - the quality is so low, and so many
postings are unresolved.



On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think a separate list for EL7 may not really be necessary, but I sure
> hope mailing lists will continue, I'd really hate to see that go.
>
> When I look at forums, there's a lot of activity in Fedora, I guess the
> younger generation prefers not using email as much?   :)
> The ML's have always been more of a keeping in touch with things for me,
> rather than a than a tool to search for bugs/solutions
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> I do not speak for anyone but m myself, a 20 year Linux Professional
>> involved with many projects.
>>
>> All I stated is that capture and reuse works very well via other avenues.
>> Mailing lists get more limiting, and consistently revisit issues, at
>> 10-25K+ users. Sun and Linux Managers mitigate this with a reply
>> off-list/Summary on-list approach.
>>
>> Although I did find it humorous when at least two individuals stated they
>> did not care for Bugzilla. Kinda made my point for me. ;)
>>  On Apr 18, 2014 11:34 AM, "R P Herrold" <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
>>>
>>> > Forgive me for not reading the entirety of last-year's discussion on
>>> > the issue, but is it fair statement at this point that Red Hat, Inc.
>>> > won't be hosting a new mailing list for RHEL7 specific discussion?
>>> >
>>> > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
>>>
>>> The 'trailhead' for that discussion was over here:
>>>
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-beta-list/2013-December/thread.html
>>>
>>> and I came away with the conclusion that at Least Bryan J
>>> Smith (for whom I have great respect in some matters) who is
>>> at Red Hat) was strongly advocating for a migration to other
>>> support venue
>>>
>>> Problem as I see it is that some such venue do ,and some do
>>> not leave 'breadcrumbs' that others can follow and read, and
>>> major search engines find hidden nuggets in.  The thread
>>> petered out, and as you remark, no list for '7' (assuming for
>>> the sake of argument that which will be its name) has appeared
>>>
>>> Also the Red Hat acquisition and rework of the formerly
>>> independent CentOS communication venue seems substantially
>>> complete.  A later post also cites dissappointment as to
>>> information density
>>>
>>> No big deal.  I would rather light a candle than curse the
>>> darkness.  This will be my only post here on this matter
>>>
>>> Please feel free to join the mailing list at:
>>>         http://lists.clefos.org/mailman/listinfo/enterpriseseven-list
>>> if you are interested in the approach of an independent
>>> mailing list on the next major enterprise OS product (binary
>>> and 'from sources' rebuilds) from our host.  I would hope to
>>> run it with civility and to stay close on topic.  As need
>>> admits, additional lists are of course possible, but by and
>>> large, I hope that the RHEL and CentOS mailing lists venues
>>> will suffice for the next major release
>>>
>>> - -- Russ herrold
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