When someone learning Racket is confused by the documentation, or can't
find documentation for something, should the *recommended standard
practice* be to ask on the `racket-users` email list?
That gets the person a prompt informal answer/discussion, the discussion
also informs other people, it captures the valuable "supply of
ignorance" information about something confusing/unaddressed, it might
be less a distraction to the enthusiastic person than making a bug
report is, it might get the person engaged with the community on the
email list, and it might provide more fodder for engaging others in
answering questions on the email list (as already happens).
(Before, I suggested that they should buffer up notes of what they found
confusing, thinking of that as less an interruption than making bug
reports, but I wasn't thinking enough about that problem. I'm liking a
practice something like "try the documentation and Google, then ask on
the email list", which I think has served everyone well.)
(Tangent: I say only "email list" here. There's also merit to having a
presence in some of the dotcom proprietary venues, just for promotional
visibility, but that can be costly fragmentation in multiple ways, and
we should retain a canonical venue and keep pushing people to it from
our proprietary venue outposts.)
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