Too much Politics?

users
#1

The LO users mailing list is the only one I've ever encountered where
people are MUCH more interested in debating "Office politics" and
Administrivia than actual product features, bugs, workarounds etc.

For the average user, the spectacle offered by this list can be pretty
off-putting. Just saying...

Jon

#2

Jon, *,

Fortunately, there is a very effective filter. Simply follow this forum on Nabble http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/
You'll still need to subscribe to actually use the listserv, but can choose what topics you actually want/need to read.

Stuart

#3

Hi,

The LO users mailing list is the only one I've ever encountered where
people are MUCH more interested in debating "Office politics" and
Administrivia than actual product features, bugs, workarounds etc.

For the average user, the spectacle offered by this list can be pretty
off-putting. Just saying...

I agree with you, several of the discussions happening here should
happen on the discuss@ list and I understand that it could be really
annoying for some users who only come here to ask or answer questions
about the use of LibreOffice. It's the only users@ list in the project
that I know doing so.
So all could you please stay on the topic of the list and post
discussions on the relevant discuss@ list. Thanks :slight_smile:

Kind regards
Sophie

#4

Good to know that there is also a discussion list. Thanks Sophie.
For real technical questions and answers there is also AskLibO forum.

#5

sophi wrote

I agree with you, several of the discussions happening here should
happen on the discuss@ list ...

Sophie, is there some reason why under the Nabble interface the global
discuss@ list is not included under the LibreOffice group, whereas most l10n
/ regional groups do include a discuss@ list?

#6

The LO users mailing list is the only one I've ever encountered
where people are MUCH more interested in debating "Office politics"
and Administrivia than actual product features, bugs, workarounds
etc.

That's not my impression. I haven't read the list in days (slammed
at work), so there were 180+ unread emails in it, for me. Only one
(1) of them was "political": I.e.: Referenced the adoption of
LibréOffice by an organization.

The only other non-tech-support related threads I found were,
ironically, those started by you: "See you later, I'm gone," and this
one.

As for the "Hey, lookit who just adopted open document formats!":
I've seen that kind of thing on many project mailing lists in which
I've participated, over the years.

For the average user, the spectacle offered by this list can be
pretty off-putting. Just saying...

You need to get out more. Or, then again, perhaps not :wink: This list,
other than the activities by our resident troll (whose name shall not
be mentioned), is pleasantly free of rancor. And, I would note,
appears to be populated by an exceedingly friendly, helpful group of
people. (Save the aforementioned troll, who I have permanently
bit-bucketed.)

Regards,
Jim

#7

Hi Owen,

sophi wrote

I agree with you, several of the discussions happening here should
happen on the discuss@ list ...

Sophie, is there some reason why under the Nabble interface the global
discuss@ list is not included under the LibreOffice group, whereas most l10n
/ regional groups do include a discuss@ list?

the discuss@ list is under the TDF domain, you can discuss LibreOffice
and also DLP babies of TDF. The NLPs discuss lists are grouped by
language subforums on Nabble, it's easier to maintain and to find like
this.

Kind regards
Sophie