Question - What happens to older posts?

asked 2017-05-08 07:27:50 +0300

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I've had some posts closed to being duplicates... duplicates of posts that are years old and have yet had no closure. They are requests, thoughts and opinions which have just been abandoned... and yet live, fresh calls are deleted for being duplicates.

It seems to me that something needs to be done to these posts... not simply abandoned, or being closed... as if they keep coming up, then there are issues which clearly need looking at.

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IIRC there used to be a process back then to prioritize issues from tjc; not sure that is still active tho.

tortoisedoc ( 2017-05-08 10:19:11 +0300 )edit

I do fear that at least the requests/issues/bugs which are not marked as "tracked by Jolla" will be buried under the mass of new messages.

juiceme ( 2017-05-08 10:55:38 +0300 )edit

sometimes i see myself that some are so old and quite similar to the one i want to create.If i can identify the software version, and is totally different as the current one, then i try to appreciate the activity to the owner. No activity then, means abandoned. And i close it.
If not really software version is mentioned and the activity seems to be dead, then i reuse it.
One time software was mentioned, version was really old, but activity of owner was still present, but not for the thread. I has its own story for the mentioned software. I closed it with a comment to the owner, an made my thread, and explain, explicitly that is not a duplicate, because of fully differences of software version and functions.
Important i think is a vital function should not be blocked just because of duplicate.
Owner should bring it alive, and other should ask how is the stand, if owner is still aware on it.
That just my point of you..
After that, we should maybe give a look in the guidelines...

cemoi71 ( 2017-05-08 10:58:43 +0300 )edit

for the guidelines on the past the simo has made a really big work.
Here i can give you some links:
https://together.jolla.com/question/109236/the-guideline/
https://together.jolla.com/question/50042/together-howto-closing-questions/
i act partly as he suggested.. not totally

cemoi71 ( 2017-05-08 11:07:31 +0300 )edit

"It seems to me that something needs to be done to these posts..." ...

Not necessarily. But if you want to, here's what you can do:

Leave a new comment
If possible: edit like "still an issue in Version 2.1"
vote!
propose solutions/workarounds
...

Of course one has to live with the fact that some of the issues that seem most important to ourselves simply aren't of any importance to anybody else in this community. Pushing my own questions up will not make them more interesting for others. (Like there's this issue with SailfishOS not showing album art in music files. Nobody cares, so I have to live with it.)

ossi1967 ( 2017-05-08 11:07:49 +0300 )edit

answered 2017-05-08 22:27:51 +0300

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updated 2017-05-08 22:29:56 +0300

There are feature requests and bugreports from Dec13 - Jolla knows about them, Jolla even has them in their bugtracker eventually, most probably their investors find it more attractive to put SFOS on more and more devices instead of polishing the OS itself. Until Jolla has a decent cashflow to fund devel in those areas, they will be abandoned and there is nothing we can do about it. Every time someone feels the need to knowingly duplicate such question, God kills a kitten and a moderator has to clean it up, the corps and the duplicate. (Duplicates do not help anything, you do not get more attention to a topic this way!)

And please, do not bump them, with logically obvious things like "still an issue" (sure it is or that quastion would be closed, right?).

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Well, therein lies the problem. The problems/issues are not being closed. They are languishing, open, with no attention notes from Jolla.

These issues are not being addressed by Jolla, but they ARE being addressed by others. I see patches to deal with all these things and I'm wondering, "Why aren't these patches pulled into SFOS by now?"

It does seem to me, like Jolla has abandoned its own community.

msknight ( 2017-05-09 07:03:02 +0300 )edit

How very dare you ! Jolla is 'people powered' it says so on their website ! That means they really really pay attention right,(?) like the time they fixed that issue with ambiences keeping the personalised music choices for an ambience you select, which has never worked. Oh, wait, no, it's still broke..... But seriously, folks . . . .persinally I'd be happy with them fixing the OS first, worry about everything else here later, this isn't a channel that gets direct to HQ, that's why people are still relying on patches.

davekelly ( 2017-05-09 11:29:32 +0300 )edit

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