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

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Yes.. and when you try to explain, that this is not a programming list, or a C++ list but a QT list.. you get called heartless (I think that’s what I got called ;) ) and are told you would be a better person... :)
>   
Or when you answer, the OP completely ignores the responses and then 
reposts the same question in either the same thread or starts a (yet 
another) new thread. Very annoying since we are all doing this on a 
voluntary basis.
>   
>> 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? ;)
>>     
>
> Yes... But lately it seems to be getting worse here.
>   
And is a sign of poor project management if they come to the list with 
basic development questions in a panic because they have a deadline in 
two days time. If this is the situation their project manager should not 
allow these people to work on such projects until such time as their 
skill sets cover basic development.

I guess to a certain extent we should expect an influx of more basic 
questions since Qt was released under the LGPL opening it to more 
companies to try for the first time. And maybe the more involved 
questions are just getting swamped in the noise (or maybe the more 
experienced Qt developers are now perfectly happy with the (nearly) 
perfect Qt API ;-) ).
>>> 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?
>>
>>     
> That’s what I try to remember to do...
>   
I think it depends upon the mail client. Kmail automatically sends to 
the list's reply-to address but I can't convince thunderbird to do this 
and so have to remember to do it manually whe I'm running windows (not 
tried kmail on win32 yet).

Sean