Mailing List Information

Questions

  1. On average how many messages are there per day?
  2. Are there many different people posting or just a few?
  3. What were some of the major topics?
  4. What was the topic on the list that interested you the most?
  5. Are the back issues of the list archived?
  6. Where can you join the list?
  7. Can the average user understand the topics on this list?
  8. Who should join this list?
  9. Do new users post a lot of questions?
  10. How are new users treated on the list?

Tomboy Mailing List

  1. 3-5
  2. Many.
  3. Plugin ideas, bugs, build errors.
  4. Bugfixes and development ideas.
  5. Backlog
  6. Join
  7. Any user of Tomboy can understand the topics on this list.
  8. Those who are interested in developing for Tomboy, suggesting features, or reporting bugs should join this list.
  9. Not alot of "new user" questions.
  10. New users are treated very cordially on this list.

GNOME Usability Mailing List

  1. 5-20
  2. Many.
  3. HIG guidelines, usability questions, bug reports.
  4. Usability issues.
  5. Backlog
  6. Join
  7. Any GNOME user can understand the topics on this list.
  8. GNOME users who are interested in why things the way they are with GNOME UI design, and want to improve the ease-of-use of GNOME should join.
  9. New users post lots of questions.
  10. New users are taken with a grain of salt on any GNOME development list. They're wary of what could be called 'fanboys' -- users who are interested in GNOME but do not want to do the work required to help. If you do want a a question to be taken seriously, make sure to prep beforehand (search the list for the same topic, make screenshots, good reasoning). This isn't a list to just say "I don't like this, so fix it". The developers won't pay attention.

Xorg List

  1. 10-20
  2. Many.
  3. Video card driver issues, Xorg testing, Xorg release features.
  4. Video card driver issues.
  5. Backlog
  6. Join
  7. This is a difficult list for average users. Often disucssion is very technical about either hardware details and code problems.
  8. People interested in developing applications on Xorg, curious about driver updates, or interested in developing Xorg itself should join this list.
  9. There are usually a few new posts per day.
  10. New users are generally welcomed, though since this is a development list there is a fairly high threshold here.