Neal Becker Software Package..?

[Timothy Murphy]

Alan Cox wrote:

>> > 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.

Maybe it is my ignorance, but I find it much more time-consuming
to navigate through a forum than to skim through a newsgroup/mailing list.


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