On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:00 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
> > nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's not great is that people are continuing to ask questions >> without >> bothering to search for an answer beforehand. [...] > > google is a search engine, but a terrible catalogue. A cataloging of problems with any programming language would probably be so large that it would need a search engine to be useful. :) > Does cake need a > FAQ? (Does it have a FAQ? I thought it did, but couldn't find it and > the wiki is dead, Jim.) Praise the powers that be, the wiki is dead. I suppose I could start a page on the manual that only features FAQs. Anyone want to help on that? > Will the docs directory contain standalone > docs? Not sure what you mean here. We have PDFs and a distribution in CHM format. > >> Not only that, but people are also asking questions that are >> blatantly >> off-topic [...] > > Where's the moderator? Why not add a list of warnable and posting-ban > offences to the list web page and welcome message? Hopefully we can heed Nate's messages well enough in order not to need a moderator. I suppose that might change in the future. I think this semi-gentle reminder will suffice for now, personally. > >> [...] whereas asking questions on a mailing list requires you to wait >> for minutes, hours, or in some cases, days. [...] > > Aye, but if one does get a reply, it is almost surely relevant. That's not the point. I hope you see that. > It's > sometimes hard to know while learning the lingo whether an answer to > someone else's question will work - it might be out-of-date or subtly > different. A well-explained and up-to-date FAQ could solve both of > those and reduce the volume. Would you like to help out on that? > The other maybe-common type of email questions are written offline > while > the question is fresh in the mind. Shipping useful docs in the docs > directory might reduce those. We ship PDF and CHM. Check out the cakedocs project at Cakeforge. > I know this is Free Software and I'm thankful for the help it > gives, but > the increasing repetitiveness of the list may be partly a symptom of > some gap in the cakephp offering, rather than all being cluebies. I doubt a FAQ will be a panacea for our woes, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Anyone up for collecting some q's for me? -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
