From personal experience, I have found that this support list is a far
better place to ask questions than creating issues on the drupal.org site. You are far more likely to get a very helpful response here. I experienced the same thing of no responses at all to issues I created on the drupal.orgsite, while I received rapid, friendly, and helpful answers here.
Best of luck.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Steven Scotten steves@splicer.com wrote:
I've read several FAQ-type documents that detail the best way to ask for help on usenet, mailing lists, and the like. Yet I still seem to do a poor job of describing issues I encounter. So I'm going to link a request for help I made and ask for specifically what I've missed, so that in the future perhaps I can make my questions more friendly to those that might be able to answer them.
My guess is that there are four possible reasons that I haven't received a response. They are (in decreasing order of likelihood):
- I have provided incomplete information.
- The question's answer is so obvious that no one bothers to answer it
- The question is difficult enough that no one can answer it
- No one ever looks at the Location Views issue queue
There's really nothing I can do about possibilities #3 and #4. If #2 is correct then perhaps a new career path is in order. So I'm hoping that I am woefully inept at asking for help.
I have included a clear example of the problem, a link to a description of a similar problem (and the patch I applied), descriptions of the ways I've tried to work around the problem, and why those methods failed.
Please tell me: what can I do differently to get a better chance of a response?
Thank you,
Steve
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