Wrong list

[Donald Allen]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
> > There are enough user questions cluttering this list that maybe an
> attempt
> > should be made to strengthen the descriptions of the purposes of -devel
> and
> > -user?
> >
> > -devel is currently described as "Development discussion and submission
> of
> > patches"
> > -user is described as "User questions"
> >
> > For -devel, I'd suggest "Development discussion and submission of
> patches.
> > NOT for user questions about gnucash installation or use."
> > For -user: "User questions or suggestions about gnucash installation or
> > use."
> >
>
> I doubt that it would do any good,


You may be right, but making the change is cheap, so on a cost-benefit
basis, it's worth doing.


> since I don't think that many people actually read the list descriptions.
> But I've rearranged the Mailing Lists wiki page a bit to try to steer newer
> users toward gnucash-users and away from here.
>

I think your reorg makes sense, but why not add more explicit descriptions
along the lines I've suggested, as well?

>
> I think a link to the gnucash-user lists on the main web page would help,
> too. Maybe I'll do that later today if I get some other stuff finished.
>
> Regards
> John Ralls
>
>