gnucash-devel list policy (was: Money files)

[Christian Stimming]

Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011 schrieb Donald Allen:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > "Edward Ingram" <eingram1 at cox.net> writes:
> >> Can I import Microsoft Money 2003 into gnucash?
> > 
> > This question should have been asked on gnucash-user, as it's a user
> > question and not a development question.
> 
> I've complained about the amount of user-question-spam we get on this
> list in the past, and I think John made an attempt to improve the
> 'Mailing Lists' page, but it clearly hasn't done the job and I think
> the wording is still not explicit enough.

Dear Donald,

with all due respect: Questions from users should not be confused with "spam" 
here, and should not be called this way. Thank you very much.

That being said, I fully agree the wording on the various web pages may still 
be improved. However, I think people will find out about this mailing list 
through various channels (wiki web page, static web page, some document in the 
local program installation etc. etc.). A clarification in one place will not 
yet improve things in the others. Reading again the wiki page, it seems to me 
the explanation there is rather sufficient and I'd guess people who still ask 
on gnucash-devel have heard about this mailing list by some other way than the 
wiki page.

That being said, feel free to edit the 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists  wiki page yourself as you said, 
because that's the whole point of a wiki.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Christian

> 
> Under 'Support', I would suggest:
> 
> The Gnucash team, along with experienced users, will answer your
> questions about the use of Gnucash on gnucash-user and the other
> mailing lists listed below:
> 
> Under 'Development':
> 
> The following mailing lists are for discussion of the ongoing
> development of Gnucash, including submitting patches, helping with
> testing, or discussing future development directions. These lists are
> NOT to be used for asking questions about the use of Gnucash. Those
> questions should be submitted to gnucash-user or one of the other
> mailing lists mentioned in the 'Support' section above.
> 
> /Don
> 
> > However, to answer your quesiton: No, not directly.  You need to export
> > the file to QIF first and then you can import the QIF.
> > 
> >> Edward E Ingram
> > 
> > -derek
> > --
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