2009/3/31 Raffaele P. Guidi <raffaele.p.guidi@gmail.com>
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" ;)
I like it... "The Wiki Tax" -MC