[Qt-interest] [OT] Request to stick to the netiquette

[Srdjan Todorovic]

Hi,

2009/5/5 Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at sabgroup.com>:

> My biggest problem with them, is that as they are usually added by the
> server, they are thrown on the bottom blindly.. killing any possible
> readability when the victim was responding.

Gmail seems to collapse quoted text, which often hides the disclaimers
in replies. Though often this also collapses inline code. I take it
other clients just show it all in its full glory?

> Honestly, as to the netiquette on the list.. I have notice two things as
> of late..
>
> 1) The quality of questions has gone down.  There seems to be an
> abundance of ask first, try to do it yourself second questions, and it
> seems to be getting worse.

I've noticed that with people that seem to be newbies in programming
in general. I think perhaps it comes from a fear of experimentation -
in case something breaks. I remember a long time ago when I was afraid
to subclass from framework-provided classes, thinking something would
break.

Almost as if some people are asking for permission on-list to try
things out, and to see if it's safe for them to try.

> 2) The question seems to get asked by 3-4 people within a week.  Almost
> like the same group of people are working on the same project and are
> all stuck...

Yes, noticed this. Perhaps these people should use an internal mailing
list in the company and then only send emails to qt-interest if they
get badly stuck?

> 3) Everyone thinks their issue is the highest priority for everyone

Hasn't this always been a problem on all mailing lists? ;)

> 4) My email is still in the "from" on the email... so people can reply
> to me :(

I've been following the Linux kernel mailing list conventions, of
replying *to* the person I'm replying to, and CCing the list so others
can find my response useful.

I know I've been shouted at in some other list for doing so, so I've
been rigorously following that list's nettiquete for those posts.

What's qt-interest's position on this? Always obliterate CC and TO
fields, and just use qt-interest in the TO field?

Thanks
Srdjan