Instead of redirecting, I ask the author to ask, so as not to presume to take something they deem private into the public. Chris Hostetter has a handy URL for this: http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#private_q
-Grant On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > When mentoring, I also try to provide some gentle help on this by answering > any privately sent code questions in public by redirecting to the mailing > list. I also send a gentle nudge pointing out that my answer is on the > mailing list and that they would get a faster answer on average if they > asked there in the first place. > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org >> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> ...More or less, here's what I tell them: >>> 1. I won't answer any development questions privately... >>> 2. The stuff I will answer privately has to do with you... >> >> I like this - I did work like that when mentoring students, without >> spelling it out as clearly as you did. Way to go. >>
