Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 5th Dec 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Controversy in the Mandriva world this afternoon. Vincent Danen is all doom and gloom, citing declining numbers of posts to mailing lists as evidence of a shrinking community. However, Javier Villacampa points out in the comments that the community is spreading out to different places, and Adam Williamson responds to Vincent, citing fast-growing numbers of users and posts on the official forums.
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2007-08-03
I'd say counting posts on mailing lists is fundamentally flawed for various reasons:
Back in the old days mailing lists where the place to go - that is done by forums now.
Linux got a lot easier to install.
There is a lot of info out there - usually you find a fix thru a searchengine without posting anything anywhere.
It's also a lot faster than waiting for someone to answer a post.
Plus some mailing list are notorious for flamefests that take up about half the posts there.
Other thing is - but that is only my subjective feeling - that there seem to be much more redundant questions on mailing lists because most of them are a pain to search.
Normally the only people that post on mailing lists anymore are those that need a fix for a very specific problem and take it to a specialized list for an app/distro where there is no forum around and no fix to find otherwise.
Edited 2008-12-06 13:57 UTC