Hard question, ain't it?

On the one hand, familiarity -- nay, committment -- to the Monastery is a desireable attribute of any dev...

But on the other, we regularly see newcomers -- even initiates -- posting knowledgeable answers to SOPW; insightful comments re Meditations, and so on, indicating that they have rather substantial skills.

... so with that as preface, I would offer the opinion (which may not be worth much) that we would do well to set the minimum fairly low to allow annointment of those in the OTH above, while obtaining some of the benefits of the attributes in TFH ("the first hand" TM).

so, ummm 6-ish???

In reply to Re: Minimum levels for joinging user groups. by ww
in thread Minimum levels for joinging user groups. by demerphq

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