Help resources for wine-users mailing list

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 12:29:24 CDT 2009


2009/7/26 Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com>:
> 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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