Disorderly Enormous Resources

[Brian Puccio]

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 01:08 -0700, ychen wrote:
> Ubuntu is great, but the resources looks like chaos, forums/mailing 
> lists/wiki/IRC/newsgroups. Can we have something which can consolidate 
> all of these resources? So that we can use a unique ID such as email 
> address to get into all, and we can see everything in one place (eg. we 
> can see messages which are from forums in newgroup).

Well, the mailing lists you read by your mail client (or gmane via the
web or news client). IRC is hosted by freenode, not Canonical. The wiki
is hosted by Canonical, so I guess maybe the wiki could be integrated
with the mailing list (ie -- you log in to the wiki and there's a screen
to manage your mail list subscriptions) but I don't think this will
really integrate much since most people use a web browser to browse the
wiki and a mail client to participate in the lists. As for the forums,
they are unofficial and they do interface the mailing lists, however,
they seem to have a problem with the spam in those sub forums that
doesn't affect the mailing list until the forum readers reply to it.

That being said, yes, there's tons of different ways to find information
and I think each serves its own purpose and does so well. If you want
instant help, search the wiki, search google and if you turn up empty
handed, run to IRC. If no one in the room knows right at that moment,
shoot off an email to the list. Some people loathe IRC. Others hate the
fact the the uu-list is high traffic. To each their own.

> Otherwise, we have to remember too many ID and passwords.

Use revelation, it manages all of my passwords.

(Doesn't this belong on uu-list, not the doc-list?)
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