On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R P Herrold herrold@owlriver.com wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Brian Mathis wrote:
packages, etc... but how? From the tone of the messages it seems like it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for zero in this context as we are talking about things that take place in public. Those things need to go into the wiki, with updated pages.
Not on blog posts, twitter, or email archives.
You can beat a cow, but it rarely gives more milk
I've written repeated private email to reply to civil inquiry to help people through build problems. I would have blogged about it, but then, if a person thought enough to write to me, it seems I should give them a personal reply
Sure, give them a personal reply, but then also update the public documentation with the same information so you can save yourself answering the same question again later.
The outline I posted earlier today will end up at github, and I'll decorate it with scripts; I'll also blog about it -- but you know, as no-one will pay for that content, it will happen to scratch my itches and on my timeline
Don't you find it at least a ironic via email to carp that an email archive is not where answers should reside
No, it's not at all ironic because I understand that different types of communications occur in different contexts. Email is a medium used for discussion, while web pages and git are mediums used for documentation and code management. Thanks for handing me a ready-made example that upholds my statement "Most of the responses rely on logical fallacies or things that can obviously be resolved with just an ounce of thought, creativity, or discussion."
with kind regards,
-- Russ herrold
// Brian Mathis