[Building Sakai] Don't steal my karma!

Mon Jun 16 07:02:45 PDT 2014

I agree with AZ that the PMC is having some good discussion on the 
sakai-pmc list and seem to be heading towards a plan in the next week or 
so [1] . Thanks to Steve Swinsburg for leading the discussion and to 
folks who participated in the Sakai Tech Documentation BOF at Open 
Apereo for bringing up the issue.

I am open to some off-line chatter about the best way to move questions 
over, and I'm happy to help. Sometimes it may not be immediately obvious 
to me what the question is, if it is a good question, etc. so it would 
be nice to have some support on that (usually I do get that kind of 
offline support/feedback on a regular basis thanks to several folks on 
the Sakai core team, so this seems feasible to me). Also, I presume it 
would be okay if I enlist the support of the community, which I think is 
generally a more sustainable model, but by having a point person (lets 
say me, hypothetically ;-) ) then there is accountability to have it 
happen.

My assumption would be that having a larger number of people asking 
questions is a better thing, if that can happen?

Before jumping in full steam, it would be good to have a plan and/goals, 
etc. But I'm excited about how this is starting up, both with area51 and 
using the "sakai" tag on StackOverflow. I think it is a good thing.

2 cents.

[1] http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-pmc/2014-June/000692.html

Thanks,
Neal

> Aaron Zeckoski <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>
> June 16, 2014 at 9:50 AM
> My vote is we reach out to him.
> That said, I think Steve S and the PMC are still trying to decide
> where that should happen (SO, Sakai area51, or Apereo area 51).
> :-)
> -AZ
>
>
>
> Bryan Holladay <mailto:holladay at longsight.com>
> June 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM
> First, for those who didn't catch the playful tone (not Chris and not 
> Aaron who I'm having our own friendly private chat outside of this 
> email thread) in my original email, I'm only trying to build up our SO 
> presence and trying to figure out how that can be done.  Obviously, I 
> am assuming the more contributors to the question answers the 
> community has, the better.  In order to build that up, I took a 
> question I was going to answer on the dev list and put that on SO 
> instead.  However, this is my first time (I had to sign up and 
> everything) so I didn't realize there was an 8 hour waiting period to 
> answering the question (my original goal).  Seems like the best way 
> may be to have Neil post the questions.  Should he do it automatically 
> or should I have reached out to him?
>
>
>
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> Aaron Zeckoski <mailto:azeckoski at unicon.net>
> June 16, 2014 at 9:24 AM
> FYI
> I think it is probably better to have Neal post questions from the dev
> list if you want to answer them for the following reasons:
>
> - 
> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250204/can-you-answer-your-own-questions-on-stack-overflow
> - 
> http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question
> - You can only do this if you have 15 rep.
> - You have to wait 48 hours to accept the answer
> - Finally, you get almost no reputation for answering your own question.
>
> Last point, I find this a little distasteful as a practice (i.e.
> asking people to not answer a question you posted so you can get
> credit). Just IMHO though.
>
> Much better to allow the community coordinator to post OR even better
> to ask the poster of the question to post it on SO. However, I think
> that Steve Swinsburg is working on where that stuff should end up so
> we should maybe wait a week or so and see what they come up with.
> :-)
> -AZ
>
>
>
> Bryan Holladay <mailto:holladay at longsight.com>
> June 16, 2014 at 9:03 AM
> I'm trying to build up my reputation in our stack overflow tag so I 
> posted a question from the list that I answered already:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24244181/how-do-you-translate-sakai-tool-names-and-descriptions
>
> However, thanks to Stack Overflow's nice ant-spamming algorithms, I 
> can't post my answer until 8 hours after asking.  I'm trying to get my 
> points up, so don't steal it!  If you do, you owe me a beer.
>
> -Bryan
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Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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