Yes, I did ask you to ask the Q at help.osm.org -- but I also realized that
it's a bit tedious process and will most probably result in many back and
forths even if such process would be accepted in general (that someone who
thinks this is a good thread would need to ask the original person who
asked the question to post it to help.osm..).
I'd think that it would make most sense that Someone would simply pick up
the Q ask it at at help.osm.org and then answer it with the core points
from the thread.
... That just doesn't result in an attribution nor a thread in a way that
the organic asking/answering of questions at help.osm does...
I think the only issues here are the odd(?) setup of one asking and
answering + perhaps to some the loss of attribution (to user accounts;
attribution is easy to write-in, of course).
So, I was really asking for thoughts on *how *to manage this process of
documenting good question+answer pairs into help.osm.org...
Cheers,
-Jaakko
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On 03/09/2012 21:30, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote:
Hi there,
Is there some policy or common understanding of how key info from good
email threads should/could be added to help.osm.org? .. I mean, it of
course only takes someone to ask a question -- but if some_one_ wants to
add someone's question and then answer it, too, then how does that work?
Colin: Would you like to answer your question at help.osm.org? ... (This
seems a bit complicated, as a procedure, eih?)
I *think* you are suggesting that I *ask* the question there?
Once a discussion has died down, some actually result in some level of
consensus (suprising though it may sometimes seem). It would be great if we
could then edit out all the tangential stuff and link the original question
to the consensus, with a link to the full debate if anyone's interested.
Let's call it an 'FAQ'...
Colin
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