Gwenview has had a mailing-list for a very long time now, but time changes. Nowadays I believe forums are more appropriate for end-users discussions than mailing-lists for a few reasons:
- Forum do not require setting up individual passwords for every topic you are interested in.
- It is easier to join an existing conversation on a forum you just discovered than on a mailing list you have not subscribed yet.
- It is easier for non-technical users to read and join a forum.
Therefore I asked for a Gwenview forum to be created on forum.kde.org. You can find it forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=213 (too bad forums do not get nicer urls :/). Come and ask your questions here!
I plan to phase out the mailing-list. I haven’t yet decided of a day when it will be turned off but it’s probably going to happen in a month or two. After that the only remaining bit of SourceForge infrastructure used for Gwenview will be the (outdated) website, maybe I’ll get around to create a site for Gwenview under kde.org domain…
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Wrong link.
The right one is at http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=213
Fixed, thanks! See, goofy-developer-friendly urls would be great…
IIRC we tried that in the past, and for some reasons we got all sorts of strange errors (but as I said, I’m going from memory).
Rejoice, as felllow admin bcooksley has set up a forum alias for you: http://forum.kde.org/gwenview should redirect to the right forum now.
Oh great! thanks a lot for this!
It would definetly be nice to have all KDE apps under kde.org for consistency, Finding these “old” sites is quite fun though, I had never visited Gwenviews site before and I bursted out laughning partly because of the nostalgia of when I first started using KDE in late 2009 and while I loved the modern software very few of the site were updated since KDE 3 or 4.0 – the constrast was quite ridiculous. Fortunately there has been great improvements since.
Thanks for Gwenview 2.7, the best release ever =d
Instead of maintaining an own website per app, it’s much better to make sure everything on userbase is up to date, that’s where we point user’s questions.
The vast majority of KDE apps that have their own website have trouble updating it after a while, and outdated information is often worse than none. By putting it on userbase, the content is community-maintained (and often even translated), easier to find and more consistently structured.
That’s not to say that you can’t, or should not have a gwenview website, it just comes with a maintainance cost that is often underestimated, leading to bad results.
I agree. In fact this is what is happening on current Gwenview website. If I were to create gwenview.kde.org it would just be an aggregation of my Gwenview-related blog posts and links to relevant places on userbase.kde.org and forum.kde.org.