[Typo3-typo3org] Repeated questions on the lists

[Christian Trabold]

Hello Elmar,

> there are questions on the lists that are asked again and again and that 
> are answered again and again. For the beginner it is nice to get 
> immediate and individual help. For the long term reader it often seems 
> rather like a lot of noise, which makes it much more difficult to find 
> the interesting information.
> 
> Do you have the same feelings? Do you have ideas how one could solve this?

in short: collect the answers and make them more accessible for non 
experienced users.

Joey, Sacha and I had a few talks about this. Here's a quote from Sacha 
on this from the typo3.org list:

"Joey, Christian and I had a discussion about a snippet archive on 
typo3.org and transformed our ideas into this first draft of a concept:
http://ichwillsonne.unlimitedvision.de/snippetarchive.pdf

Please let us know what you think about it and how we can get things going."


> How about a "beginners list", where it is tolerable if people ask 
> questions repeatedly, while this would be a bad habit on the other 
> lists, where the community would discuss new topics?

I don't think that another separation would help here. It should be more 
comfortable to find already fixed problems or answers to general 
questions on typo3.org. Something like a collaboration of information. 
Something like the HOWTOs, but with more structure.

What do you think about this?


Greetings,

Christian


PS: And yes, I know this is a lot of work ;)