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Re: About gef-dev [message #177080 is a reply to message #176852] |
Tue, 12 April 2005 19:22 |
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Originally posted by: none.us.ibm.com
I agree. All pages and descriptions you mention are managed by
webmaster@eclipse.org. Contact webmaster with your suggestions. Or there
may even be a new bugzilla component for the website in general.
"Brian Fernandes" <brian.fernandes@genuitec.com> wrote in message
news:d3g731$pdg$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Hey Guys,
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> I went to the gef-dev page just now to see how exactly gef-dev was
> described.
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> Here's what we have on the page
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> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/gef-dev
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> About gef-dev
> Come here to participate in technical discussions related to the new GEF
> which implements a drawing framework for Eclipse.
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> Unquote
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> For some of us "technical discussions related to new GEF" is pretty clear
> cut.
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> New users, however, would find the distinction between "technical GEF
> discussion" and "how to use X / my connection router is not working / I
> cannot select my EditParts" somewhat blurry. I don't think we can blame
> them for posting on the mailing lists because of that rather brief
> description, and mailing lists in general are used quite often for
> discussions which we rather have in our newsgroups. New users, might not
> even be aware of the fact that a separate GEF newsgroup exists.
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> If you think the definition is adequate - consider the number of users
> posting the wrong type of questions on the mailing lists.
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> So...
> Can we change the description to something more elaborate?
> As Gunnar mentioned earlier - there is a good description here
> http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index.html
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> But if you go to the GEF page - you could wind up at the gef-dev
> subscription page without ever having seen the description above. And if
> you have - we should "reinforce" it.
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> We could use the description at the above page or maybe rewrite it with an
> example along with text in BOLD RED just to make sure :-)
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> Just my two bits,
> Brian.
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