Hi,

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Richard Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 24, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Jonathan Wage wrote:
>
>> You have to remember that Symfony2 is very new so everyone has to get
>> familiar with it. The code is still only at preview release stability
>> so it will take some time for things to be as active and easy to get
>> community support as symfony 1.
>
> I understand, and I didn't mean that as a criticism; I am highly impressed by 
> Symfony2, which is why I'm using it.  I was merely pointing out a problem 
> that doubtless others have had, as part of my reasoning for wanting a second 
> group.
>

I think having a 2nd group wouldn't change anything. The problem is
not enough people are knowledgeable about Symfony2 yet. The same
problem would exist even if we created a 2nd group. I read the group
and I filter the e-mails into Symfony1 and Symfony2 e-mails and I try
to answer questions that I know the answer to and Fabien does the
same.

>>> If we could have our own group for sf2, that would be awesome!
>>>
>>
>> I use filters for this to separate the group into symfony1 and
>> symfony2 lists. That way we don't divide and split the community which
>> I don't think would be a good thing.
>
> Is there, then, a convention for posting topics for one or the other?  I have 
> seen a few posts with [symfony2 in the subject, etc, but that isn't 
> documented on the website or anything, so it's not something that newcomers 
> would be aware of.  That would be extremely helpful to put on there.

http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2010/06/24/talk-about-symfony2-not-symfony-2

Basically just use "Symfony2". It can be in the subject or in the
body. Most e-mail programs these days have a way to filter and apply
labels to e-mails by searching the subject and body. I would recommend
doing "[Symfony2] My Subject" as the subject line.

>
> I don't see having a seperate group as dividing the community so much as I 
> would see it as allowing a focus of specific interests.  I realize that many 
> people are very interested in the 1.x symfony branches; I am as well, but 
> merely as a curiosity.  I don't have time to read through all of the posts to 
> try to figure out if they apply to symfony2, and I don't ever plan to use the 
> old symfony framework.  I'm sure that there are some similarities between the 
> two, but if so, they aren't significant enough that any of the emails I have 
> read through pertaining to symfony1 gave me any new insight as to how to use 
> or contribute to symfony2.
>
> In short, I don't really want to see *any* of the emails that only pertain to 
> symfony1, but I am currently forced to sift through them in order to find 
> anything that I *do* want to see.
>
> On the other hand, it would be very easy for someone interested in both 
> branches to subscribe to a second group.  It would be much easier to find 
> answers to questions relating to symfony2, as someone could quite easily 
> search the google group page for symfony2.  Currently, when I do a search on 
> the group page for this group or for symfony-users, I find little or nothing 
> of use, since close to every item returned pertains to symfony1 and not to 
> symfony2.
>
> Anyway, that's my $.02.  If you leave it as is, I would appreciate any advice 
> you have on filtering -- that would work if I don't have other options.

Well if we use the "Symfony2" keyword in posts pertaining to Symfony2
then you will be able to see all posts related to Symfony2 and only
Symfony2.

>
> Also, where are the symfony2 docs stored that you can submit a pull request?  
> Are they in the git repo somewhere that I haven't stumbled across yet?  If 
> so, that would be a great thing to include in the docs!
>

http://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs

I think we probably need to add a section to the docs on how to
contribute to the projects code and documentation.

> The documentation on the web seems to have a lot of assumptions built in 
> about what the reader already knows that made it nearly unintelligible to me. 
>  That could just mean that I'm dense, but I would love to go through and make 
> some small additions in places to clarify things that did not make sense to 
> me on my first couple reads through, if you'll just point me in the right 
> direction.
>

Sure things can always be better. We've just started last month and it
will change a lot over the next few months so we'll keep your
suggestions in mind and any specific changes would be much
appreciated.

Thanks, Jon

> Thanks for all your hard work; this is the first framework I've found in 10 
> years that inspired me to actually use it over the framework I wrote and used 
> internally 10 years ago.  I am really excited to see it grow up, and hope to 
> be able to contribute.
>
> - taxilian



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