Douglas Carnall writes:
.... When I see posts from core Zope people saying (basically) RTFM rather than precisely referencing an issue it depresses me, because in fact every time they do that they are weakening the platform I hope to learn, and increasing the drag on the efforts of others to get started.
Maybe if, as a friendly courtesy, everyone who responds on an already-discussed issue included one relevant URL in their reply Zope would start to be a better documented place. You ask for a lot, too much for me personally, at least:
I read several hundred posts per day and respond to about a dozen. I have only a few minutes per post. While, of course, it would take only some additional few minutes to look up a (single) precise URL or reference, I get angry when someones asks "URL please!". It is his problem not mine. He cannot expect that I take longer to help him solve his problem than he is ready to work on it himself. Therefore, many of my responses are: background reading, mailing list archives, search Zope.org... When you think that weakens the community and you want to change something, then you are invited to take over where I (and others) stop. Dieter