<POLL> Should there be a separate forum for "Modified"
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:58 pm
I would guess that most of the regular forum users have heard about me by now, but for those that have not.......
I was one of the original Ubuntu testers (started very shortly after Warty was released) & stayed with Ubuntu as a Alpha-tester until November of last year. For reasons that most can see with the Natty release ...I decided to look elsewhere & as Mint was starting a Debian rolling release.....well you can fill in the blanks...
I have been a Gnome Shell tester for 2 years & one result is the Shell thread...there are several like-minded people here that want Sid-installs or like myself---want to hang out close to or on the bleeding edge...
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=70230
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=73029
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=73388
And several more general threads that want more than Testing....
What I propose is a "Testing & Development" forum that is devoted to playing with our choice of OS
That would allow support for a growing segment of this community & decrease the "noise" for users that want to just maintain their system.
A plus would be like the "Testing & Development" forum in Ubuntu--quite a bit of innovation came out by "normal" (we were normal?) testers--code was modified--played with & accepted into "mainstream", so its really a win-win for everyone
I was one of the original Ubuntu testers (started very shortly after Warty was released) & stayed with Ubuntu as a Alpha-tester until November of last year. For reasons that most can see with the Natty release ...I decided to look elsewhere & as Mint was starting a Debian rolling release.....well you can fill in the blanks...
I have been a Gnome Shell tester for 2 years & one result is the Shell thread...there are several like-minded people here that want Sid-installs or like myself---want to hang out close to or on the bleeding edge...
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=70230
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=73029
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=73388
And several more general threads that want more than Testing....
What I propose is a "Testing & Development" forum that is devoted to playing with our choice of OS
That would allow support for a growing segment of this community & decrease the "noise" for users that want to just maintain their system.
A plus would be like the "Testing & Development" forum in Ubuntu--quite a bit of innovation came out by "normal" (we were normal?) testers--code was modified--played with & accepted into "mainstream", so its really a win-win for everyone