Hi again, >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel> Those "silly newbie questions" are actually good for the list and for Daniel> building the community. By only asking them within yourselves, only Daniel> three people have learnt the internals of Derby. Instead if you had Daniel> asked them on the list then many more people would have had the chance Daniel> to learn about Derby. In addition the questions and *answers* are there Daniel> in the archives, and searchable by Google. Daniel> Daniel> I don't see any technical discussions/questions/answers as noise on the Daniel> list, the dev list is for precisely for that purpose. If we get repeated Daniel> questions about something, then it's a good indication we are not doing Daniel> a good job of informing people, either through writing good code Daniel> comments, design docs, user docs, etc. etc. It's useful (indirect) Daniel> feedback on the quality on the Derby project as a whole. I agree with this and is good to know that you see it the same way. I, and others I think, may have been erring on the side of caution, I acknowledge that. Some of us may be a bit too sensitive when some questions to the list go unanswered ;-) Dag
