Timeline for Can we do away with, "We don't support EOL distributions" when it is tangential and completely and utterly unrelated to the question?
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| Jul 20, 2020 at 11:58 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 11:53 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I consider the policy we have about other distros than Ubuntu being off topic (which I strongly support) to be very different from our EOL policy (such as it is). In particular, our scope is not defined with regard to Ubuntu specificity at all, and so we should not have to think about what is specific to Ubuntu. But, our site itself, and Ubuntu's own documentation, provides information on what is specific to a particular Ubuntu version, so it is reasonable to consider that. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 10:38 | comment | added | DK Bose | (2/2) IIRC, there also were debates about leaving open questions posted in languages other than English. And rather recently, there were differing opinions on when questions about the release candidate would be on-topic. IMO, given the "diversity" of users, rules should be non-nuanced. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 10:38 | comment | added | DK Bose | @muru (1/2) That's partly what confuses me. Simplistically, what's not an official flavor or EOL is off-topic. Re. the latter, "Support for versions for Ubuntu releases past their Support or "End of Life" (EOL) — unless the question is asking how to upgrade to a supported release." There's no other visible qualification, AFAICT. But I've read animated Q&As here about how some Mint questions could benefit Ubuntu users. Similarly, some questions about KDE neon, the Pop thing, and Debian, just to give a few examples, could fit the bill of being useful to users of Ubuntu official flavors. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 10:05 | comment | added | muru | @DKBose curious: why would KDE neon be any more on-topic than, say, Linux Mint? | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 4:22 | comment | added | DK Bose | Thank you for asking the question. It's part of a bigger issue of what's on- and what's off-topic. And whether such questions should be edited to make them "on-topic". I would love to edit questions about KDE neon to make them "on-topic" but am under the impression that's somehow wrong. Yesterday, we had this Kubuntu 19.10 question that was nearly closed (4/5). Fortunately, an answer was posted as a comment and the close votes have been removed after OP stated the issue exists in 20.04 as well. | |
| Jul 20, 2020 at 3:39 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | That policy (which is currently an unworkable policy for various reasons -- hoping to attend to it later) is indeed only supposed to apply when the problem is specific to an "EOL" version, so close-voting the question would be wrong. However it seems not unreasonable to ask what version you are using, for example to know what networking tools are most likely to be available. | |
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