2 commands missing from basic list?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:00:33 -0600, Bill Barry <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
> There will always be heavy list users. The best any of us can do is to
> encourage them to stay active on the list as long as possible.
> Patrick may be asking the occasional "dumb" question right now (this
> cannot be avoided) but with any perseverance on our part he could very
> well stay nearly as active on the list as he is currently, answering
> 15% of the questions posted himself.

Yes, there's always that chance.

I now know that when I started using FreeBSD and Mercurial (the two most
visible projects I am involved in the last few years) most of my
questions sounded naive and newbie-ish.  In time, experience kicked in
and I started answering some of them too :)

If Patrick likes Mercurial and he sticks around, I'm sure he will soon
be able to answer questions of Mercurial newbies himself.  Given enough
time, he may even become a prominent Mercurial developer, who submits
useful and beautifully written patches.

>> ps: Please don't start a message board unless you're prepared to
>> populate it with experts. It's much easier to give incorrect advice
>> than to fix the resulting damage, especially when that advice is
>> permanently archived on the web.
>
> Please don't start a message board at all. They are not a good medium
> for discussions. It would serve to split the community. Also I hate
> being locked in to a web interface.

I fully agree.  My dislike of forums is probably part of the `old style'
mindset of someone who has used mailing lists and Usenet for more than
15 years now.  I vastly prefer mailing lists for discussing anything
that is more serious that `hey, let's go out for a coffee this Sunday'.