Hi Burak, I came across this post of yours, which you split off the "original" thread, but ask some of the same questions. I can second the answers Thomas already gave and in case you missed it like to point you to my last week's answers in the other thread.
Let me here just emphasize, that I also don't think it was of any benefit that the framework team would no longer be as active as it is on the mailing list. I just don't see that there are so many "moronic" questions of "joe randomcoders". You wouldn't expect us to think of and treat the community like that, wouldn't you? As many others keep telling, the atmosphere and usefulness of the mailing list is a strong point of qooxdoo. And in the spirit of an open source project, we'll continue to be in close touch with the community. A great chance for everybody who wants to contribute to qooxdoo, is to become an (maybe even more?) active member of the mailing list and help other users answering questions or providing suggestions. This happens a lot of times already, so thanks for everybody doing such a great job already. Having more active community members would of course further reduce the effort the core team has to put into this, being able to spend more time with other project or development related tasks. So are there any takers? Bye, Andreas -- Andreas Ecker Project Lead http://qooxdoo.org On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 13:40 +0200, thron7 wrote: > > On 06/16/2010 11:58 AM, Burak Arslan wrote: > > 2) Most people think that the ml is great. Well, I think the core team > > is too nice. They never say no and they try to answer every single > > question in the ml, no matter how moronic it is. It's a real time drain > > for them, they should be doing real work instead of explaining joe > > randomcoder the basics of javascript. > > Actually, compared to other support forums I know our ml is really > focused and most questions are worthwhile answering. Real "baby whiners" > are rare, most people are technically savvy, self-organized and know how > to read documentation :). As the mailing list is considered a strong > point of qooxdoo, esp. when starting with it, I wouldn't want to reduce > the amount of support that can be gained by using it. I would, on the > other hand, be *very* happy if the core team (including Derrell, who > does a tremendous job since many years) could muster less of that burden. > > In many communities it is a natural way that novices are informed by 1st > level adopters that have mastered the initial stage, and the 1st level > adopters are informed by 2nd level adopters who are more advanced, and > so forth, so only truely difficult or rare problems have to be addressed > by some experts. Unfortunately, many of the 2nd and 3rd level adopters > of qooxdoo turn to their own matters only... > > > Not everybody can contribute code or documentation, but everybody who > > honestly wants to support qooxdoo can answer the occasional newbie about > > a particular aspect of js/qooxdoo ecosystem. > > Well said! > > T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
