The thing with Google Groups is that it is a mailing list that many people access like a forum... I think people don't page back to "yesterday" and read every message since their last login as many do in forums. I know I don't.
This is a debated god / bad aspect of the group. The time and day you post a problem greatly affect the number of people reading it. It is mid-day for me here in Sweden right now and if you had posted 5-6 hours later I would never have seen your message. I loosely follow this path most of the time: Search the google group. Search Google. Ask the google group. Search the core test-cases. (these are a very good source of knowledge at times) Start reading the source of related core-files (if I have a "bug" or strange behaviour) Check for an answer. Update question with my current findings from the core Ask on irc sometimes (I'm not a big chatter-bug but there are some nice helpful people there... in realtime!) Workaround the problem or post a ticket if I think I really found a bug... which is very rare. I rarely do all of it and most often I find the answer on the top three steps. But I always keep playing around on my own while I wait or if I am really stuck work on some other part of my application for a while. I have also been known to ask my question again after a day or two of silence. /Martin On Mar 31, 11:27 am, Delirium tremens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Once, I created a topic here, asking for help, then I got one reply. > Unfortunately, it was not enough help to solve the problem. I kept > posting my progress, waiting for a reply and I must have posted three > times, but I waited days to get one reply again. Fortunately, It was > enough help to solve the problem. > > I am afraid of waiting. Regarding waiting... > > Before waiting: how much do you google? While you are waiting: do you > keep trying to solve the problem yourself? or other problems in your > project? or other people's problems (in message boards, in chat rooms > etc)? how often do you check your inbox for a reply? After waiting: do > you work around? or delay? or quit? > > How dependent / independent are you? How I can I be more like you??? > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
