Re: speeding up Octave development

[heberf]

FAQ's are nice but what we don't want is to end up with the FAQ growing and the 
info pages staying the same.  That way we can avoid future e-mail questions 
asking the same question.

Actually if we end up assigning some toolbox maintainers then they ought to 
maintain the info pages.

Heber

> On  5-Mar-1999, John Logsdon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I behoves us all (and I am a fairly occasional user of Octave) to minimise
> | the load on JWE firstly by not having recourse to the list for some of the
> | smallest problems (gnuplot symbols seem to be irksome and come around
> | frequently).  Perhaps JWE should contain himself to the development list
> | and leave the answers to gnuplot problems to someone else, for example?  I
> | know that may prove difficult!
> 
> I would be glad to not feel like I have to answer questions about
> gnuplot on the help-octave list.  But for that to happen, I have to
> see that someone is answering these questions publicly.  If people
> just send responses to the person who asked the question, and that
> person never sends a summary to the list, then I generally assume that
> the question went unanswered.  And the answer doesn't show up in the
> archives, so people who might want to search for an answer before
> asking the list can't find anything.  So the same questions are asked
> again and again.  That's why I generally try to answer things that
> haven't been answered on the list, and to CC my replies to the list.
> If more people started answering the easy questions publicly, I would
> probably decide that I no longer needed to.
> 
> This also brings up the question of maintaining the FAQ.  I think
> there's a lot of information in the mailing list archives that could
> go in the FAQ, but I simply don't have time to extract it and format
> it.  Would someone like to volunteer to work on that project?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
>