Tips for writing technical exploratory emails

Tips for writing technical exploratory emails
Zhou yinhui

Thank you very much.DuduIt provides us with such a good platform that enables us to get together so extensively for communication. Therefore, I will also receive technical discussion emails from many friends. Of course, most of them are still asking for help. I am very happy to receive such emails, which gives me more opportunities to discuss technical difficulties with you. However, I would like to give some immature suggestions. I am very happy to provide some reference values for your communication.
It is worth noting that some of the minor problems mentioned in the following text are only a small number of netizens who occasionally occur, but I still hope to avoid these situations as much as possible, so I wrote them down.

1,Please provide a smallDemoTo illustrate the problem, rather than your company'sCodeFragment

This is a headache for me. Many friends will paste the code in the actual project of a large segment in the email to present the problem, and then ask me what to do.

We know that one or more large snippets of code may depend heavily on your actual project, and I don't have these contexts, I copied the code from the email to a temporary small project to clarify your problem. Obviously, it cannot be compiled, then I cannot reproduce the problems I encountered. For this reason, I will spend a lot of timeMockData and context, and I cannot guarantee thisMockThe rationality of the problem finally leads to a problem that can be reproduced for you before I really understand the actual problem you encountered.DemoHowever, it is so dizzy.

So, if you can spend5Minutes to create a small one that just reflects your actual difficultiesDemoIn the email attachment, I will not get lost in the chaotic code snippets, and will save the energy to actively make suggestions for you, and your emails will be replied as soon as possible.

2,Everyone is a brother. Don't be too polite, but please don't be too domineering.

In fact, I am hesitant to write this down, because it may be the illusion that My Pisces people are too sensitive at ordinary times, but I always think that"HiGood evening, Yin Hui. I encountered such a problem during development.XxxI 'd like to ask you to see if there is a problem with such a statement.Xxx, Please kindly advise "this challenging statement makes me more willing to participate in this discussion.

3,Whether or not I have provided the correct answer, I would like to hear your opinion or a better solution.

I am very familiar with the pressing mood to get a perfect solution when encountering problems in projects, however, please do not get angry because of my limited capabilities or because I am not in your actual development scenario and cannot give you a good solution or misunderstand your actual problems, I would like to hear your opinions or solutions. This is also important to me, rather than receiving replies from you such as "forget it, I have done it myself" or "but thank you. This may hurt my enthusiasm for replying to your emails. Of course, you may not discuss the problem with me. However, such a failure will also make me feel frustrated.

Well, although these texts are not mature, they are still some comments. Thank you very much for your long-term support and wish you a pleasant weekend.