'Community Beta' has lost its way

[Bill Marriott]

Bernard,

I do have to agree with you that the beta forum is anemic. Not a lot of end 
users seem to use it, it might be helpful if they did. Most of the "action" 
seems to be on the email lists and in BugZilla itself. ... which is fine. 
I'd rather have the issues reported in RQCC than to be discussed or chatted 
about in a BBS. Furthermore, despite efforts to address this, I'm not always 
notified by email when a new post in the forum occurs. This means if I don't 
manually go to the forum and check it, things can be missed.

While I'm one of the "moderators" there this is an administrative function 
and not a promise of being there continually... It's a peer-to-peer forum. I 
suppose if it creates an expectation that we cannot meet, we might consider 
pulling it altogether. But I do think some people like it and it keeps the 
list free of beta-related discussions not of interest to everyone.

Bill

> As there had been no response from Bill, I posted to the Beta Forum 
> (http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php? 
> t=733&sid=a27c044d3a76fc1f95dd22bafe1868f5), which is supposedly 
> monitored by Bill and by Robin Miller.  But no response from either.