Besides traffic, which is something I'm quite used to (try to read the
Python mailing list), I think dons made a quite good point.
On 7/12/07, Donald Bruce Stewart
That is, to help people progress from newbie, to intermediate, to expert, and thus ensure the culture is maintained (avoiding `Eternal September'). This graphic[1] sums the main issue up nicely, in my view:
http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/buildingausercommunity.jpg
I consider myself an intermediate-going-to-advanced Haskeller. I mean, I can go on with my own legs most of time, even if that means to read a couple of times some good papers on the subject, so I don't need to ask lots of questions on the list. OTOH, I also rarely feel confident to give some answer that I know. Mostly because I only *feel* that I know -- however I'm not certain of that -- and sometimes because I think that I can't give the complete answer -- so I leave it to someone else. So from now on I'll try to answer more times. But, anyway, that's a big problem. I'm not the only one on this situation. And probably there'll always be someone. Dons' tips are really nice (i.e. necessary), but I wonder if they are sufficient. Cheers, -- Felipe.