A point of clarification on commitment. There are three levels a new group
mush pass for a new group to be formed. Here is a breakdown on where we are at
as of today:
267/200 committers in total
100%
40/100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site
40%
commitment score, based on committers' activity on all other sites and how old
the commitment is 94%
The critical element is the middle one, committers with 200+ rep. I was very
active advocating for the site and we successfully rallied other people that
were interested (thus the 267 commitments as of today). Where the proposal
falls short is in the people with rep. I was one of the enthusiastic but under
repped folks. It took me about a month of participating on the site looking
for ways to help This measure is intended to show a persons commitment to
interacting, answering and asking questions and those activities generate
reputation. Its not hard, but it requires more than simply registering and
clicking a button.
I also support this site because this is where millennials come to ask
questions and quite honestly its a place where Google can reach answers on the
mainframe. In a real way, its an ability for us to share and archive our
mainframe knowledge and expertise.
I will offer a bit of advise. Pick a venue. Stackoverflow is primarily for
programming questions (on all platforms including Z). Superuser.com
<http://superuser.com/> is for system administration issues like how do I
configure this, change this, implement APF, etc. I actively participate in
both forums and have earned 200+ rep in both (you only need one).
Also note, its 200+ rep in ANY community. So, if there is another area of
interest for you invest your time there to build rep.
This is a great opportunity for us old timers to share, archive and seed the
next generation with what we’ve learned because if we don’t share it, it stays
in our heads and is eventually lost forever. This is a way to preserve the
experience and knowledge.
Matt Hogstrom
m...@hogstrom.org
“It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive."
— Hogstrom
> On Aug 18, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote:
>
> I know this has come up here before. It also came up at the IBM closed
> session at SHARE. I confess I did not fully understand it before and I
> promised I would write a follow-up on IBM-MAIN.
>
> Yes, IBM-MAIN is wonderful but it has some shortcomings, such as topic
> drift, repeat questions, and a somewhat difficult search interface. It is
> also not the way the Gen-Xers do things, and without Gen-Xers, the mainframe
> is going to die.
>
> I use https://stackoverflow.com/. I really like it. Check out the
> programming questions there (NONE of them mainframe-specific).
>
> The proposed mainframe Web-based discussion list is here:
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/118484/mainframes
>
> Given the different look and feel, I thought stackexchange was a
> "competitor" or "clone" of stackoverflow and kind of wrote off the earlier
> discussion here. But nay, it is the "parent" or something like that.
> https://stackexchange.com/sites
>
> Here is the deal. In order for the mainframe group to become real, they need
> people to "commit" to it. Here is what commitment means: "I commit to
> participate actively in Mainframes for at least three months, especially
> during the private beta, and to ask or answer at least ten questions."
>
> Your "commitment" carries much more weight if you have a reputation score of
> 200 or above on any other stackxxxxx site. You get points by answering
> questions, especially if your answers are up-voted by others. I had not paid
> much attention to that on stackoverflow so I have a score of only 103. I
> have registered now on stackoverflow to be notified of mainframe questions
> so hopefully I can answer some questions and improve my reputation score.
>
> If you have a reputation score of more than 200 on any stackxxxxx site you
> can really help by committing AND making sure you use the same userid on all
> stackxxxxx sites so that the mainframe group is "aware" of your reputation.
>
> I was unclear on all of this. Hope this helps. If this is old news to you,
> please just hit delete.
>
> But please consider committing to the mainframe site, for your benefit and
> for the benefit of the platform.
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/118484/mainframes
>
> Charles Mills
>
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