Hmm, Tom does have a point :/

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
> <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
>> +1 SO (stackoverflow) style interface on the mailing list..
>>
>> +1 searchable code snippet database
>>
>> +1 importing of all existing django-users topics with smart topic linkage
>>
>> +1 ability to link related topics to each other.
>>
>
> No. Mailing lists are mailing lists, not forums or Q&A sites. These
> things already exist, if you want django SO, its here:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django
>
> Thinking 'but we can make our own Q&A site' is foolish. See Jeff
> Attwood's post on the same subject:
>
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.html
>
> OP:
> Noble aims. How do you aim to achieve 'highly curated' articles and snippets?
> One of the principle problems with djangosnippets is that the snippets
> often tend to work only at the version of django the user developed
> them at.
> Do you intend to revalidate every article and snippet on every django release?
> How will you do that, will each snippet/article be required to have testcases?
> Who will write the testcases?
> Will you validate against latest current release, or a variety of releases?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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