Thanks for again pointing out that I didn't want another way to get the information, but I have to defend Simon. His first response was a reworking of the wiki page for the haskell mailing lists. What led me to learning about gmain and its search function. So I added the hint that you can use gmain to search in the mailing archives on that page. And now hopefully the next person who tries to find something in the mailing lists succeds in doing so. :-)
That leaves 2 (of my original 3) points: 1) make the wiki search function return all documents containig the search term (who can do that?) 2) consider creating a new wiki topic "Problems and solutions working with haskell" As the 2nd point regards the main wiki page I think the community should be involved with that decision. I don't really want that topic but we are missing a categorie here. Kind regards Andreas PS: I don't consider my self a newcomer. :-) I am on this list already a couple of years, I just don't post to often. (Actually the recent discussion about maintaining the community and the progress of newcomers to experts inspired me to move forward and put something on the wiki.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Frustrating experience of a wannabe contributor On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:00:20 -0700, you wrote: >You can even post via gmane. > >Tip: for more powerful searching, use Thunderbird + gmane's NNTP interface. I think people are missing the original poster's point. He's not looking for alternative ways to get from A to B; he's pointing out that a typical approach that one might try to get from A to B is broken. As an aside, this seems to be a prevalent issue, particularly with non-commercial technically-oriented communities. When a newcomer says, "Hey, I tried this [intuitively obvious] way to do something, and it didn't work," the welcoming response is NOT, "Oh, don't do that; do this other [less intuitive] thing instead." The welcoming response is to fix the damn thing so that the intuitive approach works! Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp. http://www.fenestra.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
