Okay, sounds sensible. So we'll point askers to StackOverflow in addition to answering their questions.
Ram. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 22:40, cool-RR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a question about Python-IL. Is it encouraged that people ask for >> help with Python on this list? This list is pretty low-activity, and most of >> the activity is people helping other people. While that is definitely a >> positive thing, is Python-IL a good medium for this? >> >> I am asking two questions here: >> >> >> 1. Is it good for the list? After all, I understand that this list is >> about the Israeli Python community. So unless a question has >> Israeli-specific content (Like "How do I use Hebrew in my Python app"), >> should it be here? I mean, I'd personally be very interested in Python >> activity in Israel (like conferences,) but I'm not interested in reading >> the >> Python help emails. So for me it's just diluting the valuable stuff. >> 2. Is it good for the askers? I use >> StackOverflow<http://stackoverflow.com>a lot when I have programming >> questions/problems, and in my experience it >> works great. My second choice would be to ask in the mailing lists of >> specific libraries that I'm using and have questions about. (Like >> wxPython.) >> But StackOverflow is usually the right choice. >> >> >> What do you think? >> >> All Israeli hacking lists (linux-il, pyweb-il, etc) are full of questions > which could better be asked on an international forum. > > The only reason to ask them here is a sense of community - some of us know > each other personally, some just feel warm fuzzies talking to local people, > some newbies were told "join the friendly Python list" and don't know > anybody else... > Objectively, it's obviously suboptimal, but works satisfactorily since the > local community has the critical mass of brains. > > The only reason to answer them here is maintaining this community - we like > talking to people we know, and we care about Linux/Python/$topic* *in > Israel so we're happy to answer a question by Israeli people now and then. > I think the whole arrangement is OK for the lists. > If we restrict the list to properly-local topics only, it'd degenerate to a > hollow news feed. > > Also, I'd hate it very much if we told anybody "we don't want your > questions"! > As long as enough of us are happy to answer any questions, let's be > friendly. > > => I propose that we *inform* to new askers about about other places to > ask (in particular, SO is terrific!), > but still *welcome *them here as long they feel like asking here. > > Language non-policy: > Hebrew must obviously be welcome here (because where else?); > English is also OK (because apparently most of us prefer it). > > -- > Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <[email protected]> > -- Sincerely, Ram Rachum
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