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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

Again maybe - I'm concerned about too many avenues/sites for technical info
that tend to change frequently, with the core team being unable to maintain
them and increasingly not responding at all or responding with the usual
RTFM (as you pointed out in your documentation presentation in Oslo last
year, the documentation is poor and fragmented - it's next to impossible to
find solutions to significant problems using that route because so many
things are NOT documented or it's buried under a lot of techie lingo with
limited or non-existent links to real-world issues as they are viewed by
people in the field).

I'm increasingly convinced that we need fewer documents/sites for technical
info - and rather one major source that digs really deep into every single
aspect of the UI and processes, outlining both what is there and what
isn't. Too much of that is currently only in the heads of the core team,
which are overwhelmed and not able to respond to the more complicated
issues.

Regards
Calle



On 8 April 2015 at 14:01, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Calle,
> The thinking here is that you will not need to ask the core team for a lot
> of stuff, so they can focus on other stuff.  This lists gets a lot of
> repeat questions and a lot of questions which could be answered if people
> bothered to read the documentation. Stack Exchange offers a means to keep
> answers in questions in a more FAQ type of format. It is not really meant
> to be a replacement for this list, but a more searchable site than the
> current mailing list (which admittedly is not always easy to dig through to
> find a specific answer to a given problem)
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> OK, but getting answers (or even confirmation that the query has been
>> received) via direct questions to the core team or via the dev list is
>> generally difficult except for the simple/obvious stuff. Will adding
>> another community forum change that?
>>
>> Regards
>> Calle
>>
>> On 8 April 2015 at 13:27, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> thanks to your help we made it to the last stage of the stackexchange
>>> evaluation. We now need you to "commit" to using the site - your help is
>>> appreciated!
>>>
>>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/77757/dhis2
>>>
>>> It only takes a second - please go to the link above, create an account
>>> if you didn't already, and click the "commit" link.
>>>
>>> We believe that having an online question-and-answers community will be
>>> very helpful for giving people access to DHIS-related knowledge.
>>>
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
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