[Freeswitch-users] live iso image with freeswitch

[Raffaele P. Guidi]

I am a Yate user and I can tell their mailing list suffer the same problem.
My solution? I often ask for help but, as a personal policy, I always write
an article or add to an existing one on the project wiki explaining and
documenting what people explained to me. This creates a triple value:

   1.   I have stuff explained
   2.   other people can find this explanation just googling around
   3.   I don't have to mantain a separate documentation for myself, I just
   keep referring to (google and) the project wiki (when I don't exactly
   remember things I sometimes end reading the wiki and saying "oh, I wrote
   this!")

I suggest, in the end, a kind of "ok I'll give you help but you write this
stuff in a piece of documentation" policy. I got the name, too: "The Wiki
Tax" ;)

Regards,
   Raffaele

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:28, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:

> Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> > This isn't a buffet where you pull up and demand things be one way or the
> > other... this is a community where you start helping.  I would love to
> > see more helping and less demanding!
>
> So would I.
>
> I regularly scan the mailing list looking for questions to answer, but many
> of
> them relate to scenarios of which I have had no experience, or features
> that I
> haven't had any reason to use.
>
> I am worried that the questions are answered by the same people much of the
> time, which in the long run will be bad for the project as the community
> grows, i.e., more technical support work for the same people (who are
> mostly
> the core developers as well) is not a sustainable proposition.
>
> How do other large projects handle this?
>
> Does anyone have any positive suggestions to offer that would encourage
> more
> contributions?
>
>
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