nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's not great is that people are continuing to ask questions without > bothering to search for an answer beforehand. [...]
google is a search engine, but a terrible catalogue. Does cake need a FAQ? (Does it have a FAQ? I thought it did, but couldn't find it and the wiki is dead, Jim.) Will the docs directory contain standalone docs? > Not only that, but people are also asking questions that are blatantly > off-topic [...] Where's the moderator? Why not add a list of warnable and posting-ban offences to the list web page and welcome message? > [...] whereas asking questions on a mailing list requires you to wait > for minutes, hours, or in some cases, days. [...] Aye, but if one does get a reply, it is almost surely relevant. It's sometimes hard to know while learning the lingo whether an answer to someone else's question will work - it might be out-of-date or subtly different. A well-explained and up-to-date FAQ could solve both of those and reduce the volume. The other maybe-common type of email questions are written offline while the question is fresh in the mind. Shipping useful docs in the docs directory might reduce those. I know this is Free Software and I'm thankful for the help it gives, but the increasing repetitiveness of the list may be partly a symptom of some gap in the cakephp offering, rather than all being cluebies. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
