Hey David: Yeah, a few of us have started to refer to the 'two week cycle' where it seems the same questions come around again.
Karl Fogels' Producing Open Source Software, http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.pdf, has a good section on this topic. In it he advocates 'Conspicuous Use of Archives': "Use those archives as much as possible, and as conspicuously as possible. Even when you know the answer to some question off the top of your head, if you think there's a reference in the archives that contains the answer, spend the time to dig it up and present it. Every time you do that in a publicly visible way, some people learn for the first time that the archives are there, and that searching in them can produce answers. Also, by referring to the archives instead of rewriting the advice, you reinforce the social norm against duplicating information. Why have the same answer in two different places?" [Pg 105] The new search-hadoop.com search box that is at the top right hand corner of hbase.apache.org since the new maven-generated 0.90.0 hbase website went up, makes the digging in archives quite a bit easier. Going forward I for one was going to try and mine our archives more at least for dealing with the repeats. Thanks for bringing up this topic David, St.Ack On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Buttler, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > It seems that we are getting a lot of repeated questions now. Perhaps it > would be useful to start migrating the simple questions off to stackoverflow > (or whichever stack exchange website is most appropriate), and just pointing > people there? Obviously there are still a lot of questions that can't be > migrated over since they require detailed examination of logs, but some solid > answers over there may help keep the signal high on this list. > > Dave > >
