Comments on: Call for Volunteers: Moderators for the German Forums needed

By: lOtz1009

lOtz1009 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:31:57 +0000

just to mention the german forum has gone online on tuesday ;)

By: microchip

microchip — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:10:31 +0000

@ rhorstkoetter

“- actual need of the community”

The need was already there when the arguments took place. Many times German speaking users came and posted in German all over the different forum sections asking for help, yet at the time of arguments, it was not seen as a “need”, hence the resistance of adding such section at the time. Was I right then? I highly suspect so because from observance, the needs *was* already there but it didn’t got recognized at all and resisted with lame arguments.

“- potential manpower to maintain a language-specific forum”

You didn’t had any and you currently don’t have any either. That’s why you look for such manpower at the moment.

By: oldcpu

oldcpu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:15:20 +0000

You need to add repositories that are actually populated. If the rpm you are looking for is not on the installation DVD (or installation CD) then it won’t find it. Also, you can’t just insert any DVD and expect it to work. IMHO you should wait to openSUSE-11.3 GM version, and you should then find this easier.

By: rhorstkoetter

rhorstkoetter — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:59:15 +0000

From my perspective, it’s feasible to really investigate a certain situation and decide upon several findings:

- actual need of the community
- potential manpower to maintain a language-specific forum
- influence on existing infrastructure, etc. etc.

Also, it’s rather clever (and this has been done here) to re-evaluate this decision after a certain time due to changed circumstances/influences etc.

Very deliberated decision! Thumbs up to the forums team!

By: talon

talon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:01:25 +0000

Why does 11.3 rc2 not recognize the data on a Cd or DVD? It asks to locate an application to open the disc but no matter what you choose none are available, then it looks to the online update only to find no suitable app. Any ideas here, other than this drawback looks and works great

By: microchip

microchip — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:48 +0000

This is absolutely hilarious. I was arguing months ago on the forum to add a German section and most in charge were against it with lame arguments (as apparently there was already a German forum so no need to add a German section to forums.opensuse.org and apparently it’ll only “fragment” the community). Now suddenly they turned around and will add a German section to the main forum. How hilarious is that???…. Fools!