Re: [Qemu-devel] Now, what's left to non-developers? (Qemu forum down again, No such list qemu-users)

From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Now, what's left to non-developers? (Qemu forum down again, No such list qemu-users)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:49:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4EBE2F.9080508@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUcjOV5wj_1bWH67xJRhujJCxG4aVcy+MDnEkFuTySH-A@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/19/2011 11:28 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ottavio<pr0f3ss0r1492@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> On 19 August 2011 11:08, 陳韋任<chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>  wrote:
>>> Hi, Ottavio
>>>
>>>> 2) The qemu-user mailing list is not active:
>>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-users
>>>
>>>   +1. Maybe you can ask Pablo's opinion, too.
>>
>> I don't understand. Do you mean Pablo's opinion about the mailing list
>> or about the forum?
>>
>> About the forum, I have contacted him a few days ago reporting the
>> incident and he answered that he would give it a look once he was in
>> front of a computer (he was using a blackberry or a mobile phone to
>> email, I think). I have sent him a couple of emails but no answer yet.
>> And plus, I am quite sure he's subscribed to this list.
>>
>> I think that, regardless of the qemu forum, there is a base of qemu
>> users which are not subscribed to this mailing list that would like to
>> exchange ideas and ask for mutual support and for which the medium of
>> a web forum is not stimulating enough.
>>
>> If anybody with admin rights could activate the qemu-users list this
>> would be very beneficial to this project. I, for instance, have a lot
>> of questions to ask but I wouldn't dare on this mailing list because
>> my post wouldn't be interesting enough to developers.
>
> Ottavio,
> User questions on this mailing list are not uncommon.  I think your
> questions and discussions are welcome.
>
> However, I understand that following a mailing list that has high
> traffic and mostly contains patches is not ideal.  It does make sense
> to bring the qemu users list back to life.  Anthony may have mailing
> list admin access, he is CCed.

I do, but qemu-users was created ages ago before I was an admin on the 
Savannah project.  I suspect I'll need to submit a ticket to reset the 
list.  I'll do that once I get back to the States.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Stefan
>