On Monday February 18 2008 17:49:40 Austin English wrote:
On Feb 18, 2008 12:01 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Tlarhices wrote:
In my opinion the main problem is that the bug tracker is too easy to find and the forum too hard to find.
The appdb is our forum, and it's quite easy to find.
I do agree it could use some interface improvements. For instance, I think the front page is too crowded.
Also, the 'browse by rating' feature (thanks for adding it!) needs to list apps sorted by name; the current seemingly-random sort order isn't very useful.
- Dan
What's the possibility of a winehq forum? There seem to be a few floating around online, but none are too popular. This fragments users looking for help, and doesn't give those wanting to help a consistent place to look. Plus, it's sort of hard to use AppDB to try and get help with compiling wine, figuring out driver/wine issues, and other things that aren't really related to a single application.
There is wine-users mailing list for such questions. As far as I know it even possible to send message to it without subscribing first so I think that it is very usable for users. What is more important, it is simpler to use than typical forum (no complex registration process, no delays in page refreshes, etc.). It is especially important to person(s) that want to help users on regular basis - it is very hard to refresh pages on multiple forums but it is very easy to receive messages from multiple mailing lists. Of course, there is some people who like forums. If we decide to create forum specifically for them, it is important to have possibility to subscribe for receiving all (full) messages from the forum to e-mail with direct link to reply page for corresponding message, and ability to login permanently without stupid timeout (using cookies). In fact there is some forums like this (unfortunately, all of them are unrelated to WINE) and they are pretty usable (however, personally I like mailing lists more, and didn't used forums for a long time). Of course, if there is no volunteer(s) to create and support such forum - then wine-users is enough I think.