[Zope] Zope declining?

[Jason C. Leach]

hi,

I might atribute any decline in this list to one of several things:

1. Documentation has much improuved, thus people can look up the answers
and not soly rely on this list.
	- Zope Book specificaly.
	- Training clases.
2. Many of the people are now way past the general skill level in this
list and have lost interest.
3. Alt. sources of info like: irc.zope.net #Zope

It's obvious when you see companies like www.cbsnewyork.com runing zope
that it is gaining in market penetration.

j.

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..... Jason C. Leach
... University College of the Cariboo.
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Max M wrote:

> From: Hung Jung Lu
> 
> >From the mailing list volume in the last 3 months, it is not hard to see
> >that there is a steady decline. This compared to the trend of last two
> years
> >(doubling volume every year), should probably raise a red flag.
> 
> My experience here is that the list isn't much help. It can be very hard to
> get a question answered!
> 
> Especially when it gets out of the "Hello World" level.
> 
> And when a question eventually do get answered it is often terse and hard to
> understand.
> 
> It would be nice if more of the devlopers would spend some time on this
> list, as it would really save those of us still learning a LOT of time.
> 
> Coming from the Python list this is really a big difference. If I have a
> Python question I get an answer very quickly from the top Python guys. On
> this list I hardly ever see the top guys, and it can be really frustrating
> sitting with a problem for hours or days knowing that somebody could solve
> it in a few minutes.
> 
> I am using the 2 minutes rule myself. Any qustion that I can answer in less
> than 2 minutes I will. 2 minutes isn't to much so I can answer a reasonable
> amount of questions and still get work done. When I get better I will be
> able to solve harder problems in 2 minutes.
> 
> If only somebody better would take 2 minutes to solve some of my questions
> :-)
> 
> Regards
> 
>     Max M
> 
>