Andy has pointed to https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve
and I think it's a great starting place. On an additional note, there is a clear pattern in the posts described very well by Colin Maudry-- the posters are students doing school assignments. I have at least once suggested to at least one of them that it would be appropriate for them to ask their teacher to contact this project directly to make proper arrangements for what support the project can provide, but without result. If no one objects, I'll make such a suggestion one last time, and very directly to those concerned in the following way: > Please tell your teacher that you have been directly informed that this list > is not for answering basic questions about Java programming and is moving to > require a reasonable attempt at independent work. The people who are > patiently answering your questions on this list are all volunteers who have > many other things to be doing with their time. You are taking advantage of us > by asking unfocused or simplistic questions and you are irritating people who > are trying to make proper use of the list. Please stop. Please tell your > teacher to contact us and we can try to work out some better means of > support. We want people to learn and to use Jena, but you are going about > that task in an inappropriate way. --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Oct 23, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Claude Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > > I must admit I find a number of the posts aggravating. So much so that I > stopped reading them long ago. I would support any effort to clean up the > questions and clearly mark messages that are not going to be answered. > Perhaps we should put together a page that clearly explains exactly what > data is necessary in a question and when one is submitted without proper > background repond with a "won't answer" type message that points to the > specific data that are missing. This will hopefully cut down on the noise > as well as give people who are trying a way to get the info they need, > perhaps by rephrasing their question. > > Claude > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Colin Maudry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Jena developers, >> >> Upon Andy Seaborne’s suggestion, I would like to share with you a >> concern we have with certain posts shared on [email protected]. >> In the last couple months, we have seen certain users repeatedly sending >> questions that are either: >> >> * hardly related to Jena and Fuseki >> * very basic questions about RDF or SPARQL >> * betraying the lack of common knowledge in Java programming and >> coding good practice in general >> >> What’s worse, these users, in spite of repeated remarks, keep on being >> very vague in their questions, requiring the most patient subscribers to >> ask many questions just to obtain a decent understanding of the problem. >> A problem that is, again, often not much related to Jena or Fuseki. >> >> As a subscriber, I’m tired of their consistent failure to propose clear >> and concise questions and I wish the patient people who answer them >> spend their mailing time on more interesting threads. I also fear it >> makes certain subscribers silently go away because of this “noise”. >> >> I first thought of publicly complaining to these users, but I thought >> that the managers of the Jena lists should discuss it and take the >> appropriate measures. >> >> My suggestion is to: >> >> * inform the subscribers of an upcoming enforcement of the publishing >> rules (relevance, clearness, completeness, etc.) >> * stop answering the vague/off-topic/badly presented questions >> * if they insist, remind them the topic of the list and good practices >> in problem reporting, and warn them of a possible ban. >> >> Thanks for your attention, >> >> Colin Maudry >> https://twitter.com/CMaudry >> >> >> > > > > -- > I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web > <http://like-like.xenei.com> > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
