Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Monday 06 September 2010, Al wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical
> heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server.
> At least a news server is not offically announced on
> http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read
> some, not all of the lists via infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.)
> 
> Well, there are mailinglists. But mailinglists send each message to
> everybody producing a lot of traffic overhead. As as result people are
> socially driven to reduce the amount of messages. The lists are dead
> early while IRC still is active.
> 
> By this a lot of interesting solutions are lost to effective web
> search. The buzz in IRC doesn't result in a web searchable
> documentation. It is rubbish the moment after it was written. Also it
> is not everybodies taste only to send small messages and to paste
> elsewhere when the stuff exceeds 2 lines of code.
> 
> Then there are some Gentoo web forums out there. Now that is really
> slow, moving tons of HTML for every single posting. Valuable
> information is scattered all around. Do we think intelligent people to
> limited to install a Thunderbird to read news, so that people are to
> driven to web forums like housewifes, that only know the web as
> webpages?
> 
> When comparing Gentoo with other communities it has very good
> documentation but communication could be better. I am missing the
> heart of it.
> 
> Al

wtf are you talking about?

and who is using news anyway?