Dear Chapel Users, We recognize that for many programmers learning a new language or technology, one of the first places they might look for answers to their questions is Stack Overflow. Most Chapel users have found the mailing lists and IRC channels to be useful resources for their questions, but these resources are more conducive for discussions rather than question/answer-type inquiries, and offer very little from an archival / searching perspective.
At the time of writing this, Chapel's Stack Overflow presence [1] is minimal. In an effort to utilize what Stack Overflow can offer, we have set up notifications such that all [chapel] tagged questions will end up in the inboxes of Chapel developers, where they will be monitored similar to our mailing lists and IRC channels. Hopefully, the usage of Stack Overflow can improve the ability for users to search past questions and answers, as well as lower the activation barrier to asking simple questions about the language. That being said, we still encourage the use of our other community resources, such as the mailing lists and IRC channels. Each resource offers advantages to certain types of questions. Stack Overflow's help center page [2] provides some helpful guidelines on where certain types of questions work best: > How do I? -- Stack Overflow with [chapel] tag > I got this error, why? -- Stack Overflow with [chapel] tag > I got this error and I'm sure it's a bug -- [email protected] > I have an idea/request -- [email protected] > Why do you? -- [email protected] > When will you? -- [email protected] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/chapel [2] http://stackoverflow.com/help/product-support Best, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Chapel-announce mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-announce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Chapel-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-users
