28 Jan
2012
28 Jan
'12
1:21 a.m.
Hello,
I am currently creating the website for my soon to be released gpl notation editor.
I can't decide if the site should offer user accounts for a forum or bug tracker or if
I should try to get a subforum at linuxmusicians or kvr etc. (Heck, even facebook)
From one perspective it is good to have user accounts
myself, especially if anything like bug-reporter-highscore or donations happen and I want
to keep track to give rewards.
But on the other hand it is annoying for the user to create and manage a new account for
each little page in the web only to ask one question. It would be nice to use an existing
account in an infrastructure you already know and hang around.
What do you think?
Nils
28 Jan
28 Jan
2:12 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nils <list(a)nilsgey.de> wrote:
I can't decide if the site should offer user
accounts for a forum or bug
tracker
Personally I find it irritating if I have to create an account before one
can help the author.
I find sending an email to the contact address, then chatting about
relevant info for a bug report,
and then filing a bug report is a good "workflow" for small projects bug
reports.
I've had quite some emails from people building Luppp, and I've mostly
created the bugs (or "issues" on Github) myself. I suppose for big projects
where multiple people need to be informed about issues a mailing list could
be used for bug queries, but for "single-dev" projects I don't see a
problem with the personal email.
My 2 cents, -Harry
11:11 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:12:41 +0000
Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nils
<list(a)nilsgey.de> wrote:
Bug reports are a different issue. Any channel the user chooses is fine with me. I find it
more than irritating if projects reject bug reports only because they don't follow
certain rules or are sent to the "-user" mailinglist instead to the bugtracker.
I am not picky here. If it needs extra work to gather all bug reports, I'll do the
work as long as the user don't have to do it.
But I really meant a place to discuss things. Users helping users, a bit offtopic
chatting. Mailing lists are not everbodies favourite medium for that.
I want a low barrier for people who decide to ask questions or even answer questions. And
the first barrier is account creation.
The more I think about it the more shocking is the conclusion: Either I offer my own forum
or I go directly to the "mass-media" which means not KVR or LinuxMusicians forum
but Facebook, Google+, and Twitter directly.
Of course this whole train of thougth is based on "If I had to choose only one place
for user-talks". Nothing prevents me from choosing all of the above. But users stay
in one place. There are projects where you can ask in IRC or forums as often as you want,
you don't get an answer, but via the mailing list you are almost guaranteed to reach
somebody who has an answer.
Nils
I can't decide if the site should offer user
accounts for a forum or bug
tracker
Personally I find it irritating if I have to create an account before one
can help the author.>
I find sending an email to the contact address, then chatting about
relevant info for a bug report,
My 2 cents, -Harry 
11:41 a.m.
Am Samstag, den 28.01.2012, 11:11 +0100 schrieb Nils:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:12:41 +0000
Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Your own forum could lead to more work then it is worth, we have open a
forum ( on SourceForge), were our project is hostet, without the need of
registration, to keep the barrier low. Just with a captcha to prevent
spam. But that didn't help and the forum is fluted with spam every day.
For that reason I think about to close the forum, I wouldn't spent
several hours a day with remove spam from there.
But indeed, most people witch posting there do it, because there is no
need to register first.
So a low barrier have also a negative side.
greets
hermann
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nils
<list(a)nilsgey.de> wrote:
Bug reports are a different issue. Any channel the user chooses is fine with me. I find
it more than irritating if projects reject bug reports only because they don't follow
certain rules or are sent to the "-user" mailinglist instead to the bugtracker.
I am not picky here. If it needs extra work to gather all bug reports, I'll do the
work as long as the user don't have to do it.
But I really meant a place to discuss things. Users helping users, a bit offtopic
chatting. Mailing lists are not everbodies favourite medium for that.
I want a low barrier for people who decide to ask questions or even answer questions. And
the first barrier is account creation.
The more I think about it the more shocking is the conclusion: Either I offer my own
forum or I go directly to the "mass-media" which means not KVR or LinuxMusicians
forum but Facebook, Google+, and Twitter directly.
Of course this whole train of thougth is based on "If I had to choose only one place
for user-talks". Nothing prevents me from choosing all of the above. But users stay
in one place. There are projects where you can ask in IRC or forums as often as you want,
you don't get an answer, but via the mailing list you are almost guaranteed to reach
somebody who has an answer.
Nils I can't decide if the site should offer user
accounts for a forum or bug
tracker
Personally I find it irritating if I have to create an account before one
can help the author.>
I find sending an email to the contact address, then chatting about
relevant info for a bug report,
My 2 cents, -Harry
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