That sounds as easy as herding cats. Trying to get all the people on the user list to NOT do anything is unlikely.
The fact is, as I see it, its easier to just give a quick answers to questions that strike my fancy than it is to hunt it down in the docs and point them to it. That allows me to limit the time I have available to "invest" in Maven. If I give the the URL directly, they don't know how to find it in the future. If I want to tell them which links to click to get there, its a pain for me. Its also likely to change in the future (as it has in the past when the docs were rearranged). FInally, typing in a list of things to click is error prone and easy to get wrong. Maybe someone (or ones) would volunteer to collect the questions from the newsgroup and transfer them to the site if someone else would reply to the interesting questions with some magic words that could be searched on. So, for example, I see what seems to me to be a FAQ with a useful answer in some thread on this list. I reply with the magic word "FAQCANDIDATE" in the reply. I picked one "word" because Google searches for two words differently than one word. Then the collectors could search for that word and come up with a short list of user list threads to mine for good FAQ entries. The only way I see that I would fail, besides nobody doing it, is if idiots invade the list and overuse the magic word. -- Lee Meador On 9/27/07, Wim Deblauwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about not answering any questions on the mailinglist anymore, but > only > point to existing documentation. If there is no suitable docs for the > question, put in a JIRA issue. That should improve the docs fast! > > regards, > > Wim > > 2007/9/27, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 9/26/07, Tomasz Pik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Example - please, try to find out how to skip executing of tests > > > during build starting from http://maven.apache.org > > > > OK, I'll bite... > > starting at http://maven.apache.org > > on the left, click on Wiki > > scroll down to Children, click on FAQs, see its not there > > click on "previously answered questions" (or click back and click on > > FAQs-1) > > oh look, there it is -- Testing "How do I skip unit tests when > > building a project?" > > > > Admittedly, I'm not sure why we have 2 FAQ pages in the Wiki, plus > > another FAQ on the main Maven site. But I also don't think this is all > > that horrible. Obviously you can't expect to find every answer this > > "easily" but common questions should be. So the next step seems (to me > > at least) to be determining "what are those common questions", as I > > mentioned in Brian's thread on improving site docs. This is something > > that users like yourself must participate in if we hope to have any > > chance of success in this effort. > > > > (Also if you Google for "maven skip unit test" there's a number of > > hits right away. I personally feel that answers found via Google are > > no less valid than others, especially if you add the > > "site:maven.apache.org" directive. To say nothing of all the hits in > > the mail list archive if you search for this.) > > > > Wayne > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Vigilog - an open source log file viewer: http://vigilog.sourceforge.net > Blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/Fester > -- -- Lee Meador Sent from gmail. My real email address is lee AT leemeador.com
