Re: Invitation
Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:24:03PM -0000, Rob Taylor wrote: > > > I don't recall if you discussed the issue on any of the public > > > mailing lists > > > (at that time, "xpert" would have been the relevant list). > > > > I did, and questioned a number of times why no one had replied to my posts. > > Maybe a solution of this seemingly lack of response for more or less > advanced help asked on the xfree86 lists, would be to create a new > mailing list, a bit like the debian-mentor one, which would be a forum > for beginer xfree86 hackers or something such, where you could ask > questions about technical issues you need help with without being afraid > to bother the more advanced members of the team, and without the problem > of asking a question and never getting a response, which may well > discourage potential future developpers. How does debian-mentor work ? My impression is that the problem with this is the you *have to* bother the more advanced members of the team because they are the only people who can help. In a similar way I think that the xpert list got so full of newbie questions because the experts didn't read newbie, and newbies couldn't answer each other's questions. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna