Bootstrap: Documentation does not refer to discussion forums

[Chealer]

While the documentation used to refer to a twitter-bootstrap mailing list following report #10314, this is no longer the case following a 2013-12-07 commit which addressed issue #11760.

According to that commit, "We’ll have a new official forum for discussions soon folks". Unfortunately, I cannot find Bootstrap forums other than those, which do not look too official.

In any case, the documentation must indicate the discussion forums.

[mdo]

There are no forums, we only have our Slack channel as mentioned in the readme.

[Chealer]

@mdo, the README does not actually indicate that there are no forums.

Thanks for reopening, this should not be closed until either the README indicates the official forums (if there are really no official discussion forums, that means adding a warning to that effect until one is created).

[mdo]

There won't be any readme updates—there's no reason to make mention of something that doesn't exist. The readme has clear callouts for community areas.

[Chealer]

There won't be any readme updates—there's no reason to make mention of something that doesn't exist.

The point is not to mention something that doesn't exist. The point is to indicate that Bootstrap has no official forums so that new contributors stop looking for them, ideally indicating the reasons why that is the case and/or future expectations. Developers expect any socially-produced software of Bootstrap's importance to have at least 1 official forum.

[kevinruscoe]

This is stupid. Telling people what doesn't exist is just backwards. There are millions of channels that don't exist (i.e. official forum, subreddit, discord, voat-subverse, usenet board, etc). Listing the stuff that does exist is the only logical thing to do.

As for the "Developers expect any socially-produced software of Bootstrap's importance to have at least 1 official forum." where the hell are you digging that up from? Stackoverflow is the perfect place for your CSS issues. If there's a bug that needs reporting, you report it here.

[Chealer]

This is stupid.

Please watch your language.

Telling people what doesn't exist is just backwards.

Right, I suppose your offspring still appreciates Santa Claus's gifts then.

There are millions of channels that don't exist (i.e. official forum, subreddit, discord, voat-subverse, usenet board, etc). Listing the stuff that does exist is the only logical thing to do.

Please use your judgment or read properly. No one asked to list every type of discussion forum which Bootstrap does not have. The only thing requested is to indicate that Bootstrap has no discussion forum (of any kind). The following would suffice:

Bootstrap has no official forum (mailing list or other) to discuss its development (as of 2018).

As for the "Developers expect any socially-produced software of Bootstrap's importance to have at least 1 official forum." where the hell are you digging that up from?

Perhaps you know such software?

Stackoverflow is the perfect place for your CSS issues. If there's a bug that needs reporting, you report it here.

Thanks anyway, but Stack Overflow's purpose is to help developers (directly). It is not intended to help developing products (directly). Stack Overflow is not an issue tracking system, nor a forum for projects to make decisions about their products (for instance).