Topic: Suggestion for feeback on Contribs/How Tos

[wellsi]

-- Background --
On the docs list we have been discussing replacing the feeback pages in the wiki (example  )
So one possibility is to start a forum thread, and here is an inital idea.

-- Title --
 Contrib Feedback: How to install Courier IMAP on SME 5.6 and 6.0

--Body--
How to install Courier IMAP on SME 5.6 and 6.0

The RPM provides the services IMAP, IMAP-SSL and POP3-SSL
Author(s): neddix
Contributor(s):
License: Unknown

How To Link: http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Courier%20IMAP%20on%20SME%205.6
Topic Page: E-Mail

This thread is for feedback specificaly related to this How To & Contrib.
Reports of success are welcome, as well as any problems and suggested improvements.

[Anonymous]

Looks good Ian!

What do you think about posting a poll at the top of the thread? Anyone?

RonM

[wellsi]

I have now made one 'live' version

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=23127.0

comments welcome

[RonM]

There's now a couple more examples of How-tos with linked forum entries:
[Announce] FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 for SME 6.0
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=23158.0

Contrib Feedback: How to install Postgre SQL (Française)
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=23156.0

Please provide some feedback for us, folks!
It's going to be a lot of work to implement this. If most people just think "Eh? So what!" it would be a lot better to know it now.

Thanks!

[mbachmann]

Hm, it's beginning of scattering around everything. I think we don't really know what we are doing, to quote a cite from the docs wiki pages.

Sure you'll get more feeback in the forum therefore i think the idea is o.k. but how about linking the forum feedbackj page directly to the according wiki and kinda "force" the posters to comment there.

After a while the "forum feedback thread" will drop out of attention.

[byte]

Couldnt we have a forum for these FB and the new release's least then all the work done will be under there while the main questions and answers be on the general and experince....

I also think a Security Updates Forum would be good idea too! as I have seen a number of you guys on here do your own updates...I dont know how the internal of security updates is working but there has already been security patches but contribs have not put them in there update location or annouced any for a good while now!

[wellsi]

After a while the "forum feedback thread" will drop out of attention.

A good point. I had noticed that but still not sure if it is a problem. A seperate forum is a good suggestion.

Since switching to using forums for feedback there has been more, so I think it was a good idea. However maybe there are further improvements to be made.

If the distro lives then I guess more organisation will be needed.