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Re: Help resources for wine-users mailing list: msg#00559

wine-devel

Subject: Re: Help resources for wine-users mailing list

2009/7/26 FrÃdÃric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Over and over, I see help requests on wine-users with responses like
> "installed latest wine", "read FAQ section x.y", ...
>
> Wouldn't it be useful to send a regular reminder (like every month, and on
> subscription)?
> This would contain:
> - how to upgrade to latest version
> - link to FAQ
> - link to bugzilla + how to look for dups before creating new bugs
> - <everything useful>
>
> This would avoid countless identical responses to common problems, and help
> reduce
> traffic on wine-users, hence concentrating on "difficult" problems.

Keep in mind that most of the traffic now is on the forums (traffic
exploded after adding it). There's already a sticky saying to read the
FAQ...we could add a second sticky with a few basic questions/answers,
but I'm not sure how much good it would do.

--
-Austin


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