[Typo3-dev] About list policy

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi Michael (and other core developers!).

I understand what you are saying very well. You and other core
developers know typo3 much better than others in this list. Some
questions may seems obvious or even stupid to you. But if people ask
them, they may have their reasons. By saying "this is a wrong list", you
may force people to go and find a CMS with more friendly comunity.

What can one I read about typo3 on the web? That it is a complex CMS and
requires huge time to learn. So people go and pick up something else.

Another (opposite) example is phpBB: large community answering any
stupid question and helping anyone to learn how to make hacks, etc. (I
am not discussing phpBB bad quality here).

What I am trying to say is that community is important for any open
source project. And forming this community is also important. Community
helps to make product popular and widely used.

I never saw realy stupid questions in this list. I do not have much to
add to most of the discussions but I am reading every message and
learning, learning, learning... It helps a lot. Every message, every
answer is important, even if it is not directly related to core
development. Answering a question could take 5 minutes from a core
developer and days of searching for a new typo3 developer.

It does not mean that people should ask "how do I login to the BE?" and
get answer. But if someone writes "Found a potential problem" or
"strange behaviour", he should be only welcome! Because he tries to
improve the product! If receives "go away" response than...he goes away.
Idea is lost, any other detected problem may be hidden.

About bug tracker. If everyone starts to put every possible
problem/question/idea to the bug tracker, you (core developers) will be
flooded with such "bugs". I do not think this is what you want. In my
opinion it is easier to answer: "yes, this is strange, put this to
bugtracker". And that's it. Discussion is closed, problem is recorded,
everyone is happy.

Comunity is very important. Do not force people to stay in their corners
when they are trying to help.

Best regards,
  Dmitry.

> Subject: Re: [Typo3-dev] About list policy [Was: Re: Strange behaviour with extrep_kickstarter?]
> From: Michael Stucki <michael at typo3.org>
> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:32:51 +0200
> To: typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de
> 
> If it was me who wrote that then I might have done so because I was thinking
> it is a user error (missing knowledge, etc.).
> 
> If you are sure it is a bug then please insist, or even better:
> Report it to the bugtracker as the bug description might get lost
> otherwise...
> 
> Regards, michael