[wp-forums] Beta Forum description

[Michael B]

Kaf, my apologies, and my intention was not to confuse visitors, or either
of us.  I'm changing the title of the beta forum now, and we can sort out
the rest of the issues later.

I really shouldn't try to do 4 things at once, especially when others are
involved.

Again, accept my apologies for skimming through an email

Now reads "Alpha/Beta <http://wordpress.org/support/forum/12> — Discussion
of development versions only"

Michael



On 1/24/07, Kaf Oseo <kaf at szub.net> wrote:
>
> Michael B wrote:
> > As a point of history, at least as I remember it, the forums generally
> *DO
> > NOT* support alpha, bleeding-edge, versions.  Only when 2.0 was being
> > introduced, was the beta forum generated.
>
> As a point of history, there was a Beta forum created around the time I
> joined
> back in Oct. 2004 for dealing with 1.5 users. It was soon closed after
> release,
> but returned for 2. And so on. It was mere happenstance that it stayed
> around
> without a break (though you should ask Podz if he had reasons for it) this
> time
> around.
>
> It's true the forums never provided 'official' support for anything other
> than
> post-release versions. That didn't stop people from looking for it there.
> Hence
> the 'Beta' forum.
>
> > I do not have the ability to close it, or lock it, I can only change the
> name.
>
> If you return the the original email in this thread, you would see I asked
> for
> nothing more than a change to the description.
>
> > Last week, with RC2 on the shelf, I changed the title, to try and divert
> any
> > new posts.  2.1 went gold, and theoretically, it should be closed until
> the
> > next beta.
>
> I never learned how to provide theoretical support.
>
> (Sorry Michael, I got a pretty snarky here.)
>
> > Personally, if there's a "market" for a forum for "bleeding-edge" users,
> and
> > people want to support it, I have no qualms.  The problem lies however,
> in
> > new users getting confused with the different categories, or fora as it
> is.
>
> As far as I'm concerned the issue RIGHT NOW is not what do we do with the
> forum,
> or how should we deal with the 2.1/2.0.x conundrum, etc. The issue is: how
> to
> dissuade members from posting 2.1 issues in the Beta forum. One was to do
> that
> is very simple, as I originally suggested.
>
> -Kaf
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