In order to be as efficient as possible in answering questions and so that the answer benefit others the most we had defined a strategy. It's written on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HStrategiesforansweringontheXWikilists
Here's the relevant excerpt: " 1.1 Strategies for answering on the XWiki lists Here's a good strategy that improves the XWiki documentation on xwiki.org: 1. someone (A) asks a question on a xwiki list 1. someone (B) knows the answer 1. B verifies that the answer can be found on xwiki.org and if so gives a link to it in the reply to A 1. If the answer is not found on xwiki.org, then B adds it (*) and then gives a link to it in the reply to A In this manner we all enrich the xwiki documentation and it'll only take marginally longer to answer questions. The next time someone asks the question again we can simply point him/her to the location on xwiki.org What happens otherwise is that usually people answer in the email, often giving very long and elaborate answers with lots of knowledge/ wisdom in it. Then another person comes in, asks the same question and we answer again, etc. The result is: * the xwiki.org documentation is not better * overall as a team we are less efficient (*) One difficult in putting the answer on xwiki.org is to find the right location where to put it. So here are a few tips: * For code snippets, add it to the [Code Zone>code:Main.WebHome] * For questions on how to use XWiki, please add it to the [Features guide>platform:Features.WebHome] * For development questions, add it to the [Developer's guide>platform:DevGuide.WebHome] * For configuration questions and administration questions, add it to the [Administration guide>platform:AdminGuide.WebHome] * For other questions, add them to the [FAQ>xwiki:FAQ.WebHome] " I've seen a lot of emails recently where we're not doing this (me included) and thus I thought it would be to remind us all about strategy. Also xwiki.org hasn't been improved a lot for a while so it's good to make an effort to do so. Could be a good thing to do especially during the bug fixing week. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
