I think this forum idea would be incredibly helpful, both for new devs as well as people already very familiar with Blender's code.
The benefits to new devs is more obvious - but another not so obvious benefit to existing, experienced devs is that a persistent forum for blender coding questions is more scalable in terms of the effort they have to put in to answer people's questions. If someome explains something about some bleeding edge code in the 2.8 branch to me, that nugget of knowledge is gone as soon as I close my chat client - no one else will ever again benefit from that help I received from an experienced blender coder. We could maybe tag each question / set of answers with associated blender versions too (just like software tech discussed on stackoverflow) and over time, it ends up being a potentially huge repository of really useful code documentation. Thanks, Danrae On Nov 8, 2017 12:51 AM, "Campbell Barton" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Danrae, We don't use developer.blender.org as a forum, currently we use IRC and this mailing list for more formal topics. As you note, IRC is too timezone dependent. While a mailing list is OK for general questions, details discussions can become too noisy. The possibility of having a forum was raised recently: https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2017-August/048655.html We did have a blender.org forum years ago but this was a general forum with too much overlap with blenderartists.org I think it'd be nice to try out a more focused forum to improve the experience for new developers getting involved. We could do a trial run and see how it goes, although I'm not sure how much work is involved to set it up, especially if we want to share authentication with developer.blender.org or blender-id. On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:24 AM, spock theGray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sometimes I have Blender code-related questions for which I don't need > real-time help like IRC or maybe nobody is on in IRC at that time who is > able to answer, etc. In this case, I would be totally cool with just > posting something somewhere for people to respond whenever they have a > minute & I can check it later when I have time... kind of like > stackoverflow, but specifically for blender contributors... > > Can contributors just ask code-related questions in the phabricator task > comments or should we keep those discussions related to requirements / > design only? > > Also, is this mailing list an appropriate forum for contributors to ask > specific questions about the blender code-base? If not, is there a mailing > list for specific code-related questions? > > Wanted to verify that code-level questions are on topic ahead of time b.c. > the wiki (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/New_Developer_Info) > mentions to stay on topic, but I couldn't find much detail about what's > considered on topic and I haven't seen any code-related questions flying > around this forum yet... > > Thanks, > Danrae > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
