Timeline for EOL Policy Revisited: a case for letting Ubuntu questions be on-topic
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 25, 2014 at 23:22 | answer | added | SethMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 6:48 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | No rush -- good things are worth the wait (you see, you are building expectations here ;) | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 2:10 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Sorry, life has been really busy. I'm still planning on answering :) | |
| Sep 27, 2014 at 12:08 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | Looking forward to it -- the last word is not said yet ;) | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | Seth Mod | FWIW, I am writing an answer to this, I've just been too busy to finish it recently. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 13:08 | vote | accept | Nick The Swede | ||
| Sep 26, 2014 at 13:08 | history | edited | Nick The Swede | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2014 at 19:53 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Just think of it this way. The question is mostly about getting out of the building, so it is allowed to stay, even though it can be used for other purposes. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 14:17 | answer | added | Mateo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 13:46 | answer | added | Rinzwind | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 7:25 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | @Mateo: Using your metaphor, the linked question is about how to survive by staying in that building (clearly EOL) and the most popular answer by far directly tell him how that is done (the EOL-solution) as well as recommending escape (i.e. upgrade). As for the duplicate comment: since the first sentence of my post starts "I wonder whether it is time to re-address the question" as well as linking to that prior poll in my own post, I am at loss how to interpret that comment in a charitable way. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 0:14 | comment | added | Seth Mod | @Mateo I wouldn't really consider this a duplicate, bringing up an issue again is ok as long as the last time it was discussed wasn't too soon. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 22:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 16, 2014 at 21:35 | comment | added | Mateo | It's as simple as - If we want people to be up to date, and be vigilant about it, we need to be able to support people that are upgrading to a supported release, just like Oli said, they are explicitly on-topic. This is essentially like two questions - "How to start a fire" and "How to escape a building on fire" they are both about fire, we must support people escaping from EOL releases. I suggest finding a different example, as I see this question as a good reason to keep the EOL policy, as it serves as a postmark and is referenced in the EOL closing reason. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 21:00 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | I don't see any 'edge' status here: the referenced question clearly is about version already old at the time of writing, "I have installed an older version of Ubuntu...", and the answer clearly answers the specific question as well as telling the OP to upgrade. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 18:11 | comment | added | Mateo | The one question you reference is an edge case, in that there will always be a version behind - so we need a question that has the info "How do I upgrade" - "How to get software", because there are several situations, maybe they just missed the eol date, maybe they dug up the old pc and are upgrading messing around, this stays, and the information is not specific to the EOL release. The other situation is someone asks a question about 12.04 - the question sits unanswered, or low answers, unaccepted. Once 12.04 is EOL we don't then close or delete questions that were asked before it was EOL. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 16:49 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | I am not sure about what your point is here, Mateo -- are you referring to any of the posts I link to? Otherwise, I agree but do not see the relevance for the EOL policy. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:50 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:36 | comment | added | Mateo | Posts are not cleansed due to the simple fact They were on-topic when they were asked | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:33 | comment | added | Oli Mod | I'm not sure if it's relevant but questions about upgrading from unsupported releases are explicitly on-topic. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:26 | answer | added | terdon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:24 | comment | added | Nick The Swede | I do not get your argument here: 1) why is the example bad? It is a EOL question, right? 2) why is a question having the best answer being 'upgrade because X' a reason for treating the question as off-topic? Please explain. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:17 | comment | added | Seth Mod | Your example isn't very good because that question is mostly about upgrading, although it does occasionally solve other problems. The main reason we close questions about EOL releases is because the real answer to the question is to upgrade. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 15:04 | history | asked | Nick The Swede | CC BY-SA 3.0 |