Ha! That's exactly what I was saying (or trying to say) in my reply. Regarding this: > Going forward I for one was going to try and mine our archives more at > least for dealing with the repeats.
Do you mean manually, or did you have something more sophisticated in mind? Thanks, Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - HBase Hadoop ecosystem search :: http://search-hadoop.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Stack <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Buttler, David" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 12:16:50 AM > Subject: Re: Stack Overflow? > > 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 > > > > >
