Neal Becker Software Package..?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Jan 4 13:23:10 UTC 2012


On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:55:28 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:27 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:51:05 +0000
> > Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 3 January 2012 23:05, Linda McLeod <lindavaldeen at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > > users mailing list
> > > > users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > 
> > > Either the moderators ban this user, or I'm unsubscribing. The
> > > signal-to-noise ratio is just too low at the moment and it's wasting
> > > my time.
> > 
> > Most people already left for fedora forum and the like. The list is
> > basically not managed so its useless. If you want to fix that you need
> > to take it up with the fedora board I believe.
> 
> No doubt some people have done so, but "most people"? Do you have
> information on this? Enquiring minds want to know.

Plot graphs of active contributors to this list and their active time on
the list before leaving, compare with the power curve you got from doing
it with old data. It speaks volumes.

For comparison do the same with the Fedora forums, although there you'll
really need to do a bit of statistical sampling as I don't know a polite
and reasonable way to pull the needed data and crunch it locally.

Alan


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