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Subject: RE: List of frequently found gotchas
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 07:52:49 -0600
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Thread-Topic: List of frequently found gotchas
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From: "Chappell, Simon P" <Simon.Chappell@landsend.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de [mailto:Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:23 AM
>To: user@ant.apache.org
>Subject: RE: List of frequently found gotchas
>
>
>> Could we follow the pattern of a number of the newsgroups and=20
>> post a reference to the FAQ and manual and the website on a=20
>> suitable time period? I follow comp.lang.objective-c, for=20
>> example, and they post a link to their FAQ every week. This=20
>> seems to be very useful for a number of reasons:
>>=20
>> 1. A message with a couple of links in does not take up much space.
>> 2. It gives a very high signal to noise ratio.
>> 3. It will remind people of the wonderful resources that are=20
>> available.
>> 4. We seem to have a good deal of new people joining the=20
>> list, this gives them the information that they need without=20
>> them having to ask for it (newcomers can be shy).
>>=20
>> Perhaps something like this could be posted on a weekly or=20
>> fortnightly (bi-weekly for the Americans on the list :-)=20
>> basis as an experiment for a while.
>
>
>Sounds useful and can be done by cron-job on the cvs.apache.org.=20
>Content can be part of the cvs-tree, e.g. (new) =20
>/docs/mailinglist.reminder
>...

So who would set up such a thing?

>In addition to the urls (and according to other newsgroups) we=20
>can send a
>kind of netiquette.=20
>  "How to ask questions"
>  1. try "-verbose" mode and check the result
>  2. provide the important buildfile, log and stacktrace parts

Excellent. That would be very useful information to include also. I =
think that we have a workable idea here.

>Jan

Simon

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