Hi Andrew, I am not sure if ChatGPT and the like are happier with issue tracking or Q&A data rather than structured documentation.
I have used stack overflow a lot for the same reason I now use ChatGPT: to quickly find solutions or options instead of reading the books :). Looking at the sources ChatGPT provides with its answers I don’t recall having seen StackOverflow, but this is just my experience. I am not aware of how they assign a “relevance score” to their sources. I don't know, my gut tells me that a complete and structured documentation would be better these days. Having recent news/talks/posts on Groovy & Grails will help for sure the “relevance” and the perception of the technology. We all know it’s a psychological thing but most of the marketing/communication is based on that. Along with the Grails 7 release we need to find a way to better communicate Grails, maybe with documented use cases and company names. So when people ask ChatGPT about Grails that’s what it’s going to tell them :) Cheers, Gianluca Sartori -- https://dueuno.com On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 at 04:53, Andrew Garcia <and...@goodshuffle.com.invalid> wrote: > I believe I recall hearing that the content of the mailing list is > crawlable bots yes? In this case that’s a strong value add to the community > as I believe it’s on our best interest that as much of the troubleshooting > conversations, and answers, are indexable by services like ChatGPT and > Claude. Ai conversations at the go-to source for everyone/engineers of the > future and if we isolate all of the rich conversation away from the eyes of > those platforms we’re only hurting ourselves. > > I’m a fan of the expediency and organization of slack, but if it’s not > replicated online and indexable we’re missing the future. > > -Andrew > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 5, 2025, at 10:07 PM, James Daugherty > > <jdaughe...@jdresources.net.invalid> > wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > In this past week's developer meeting, we discussed the decline of > > stackoverflow ( > > https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/). The > > ASF provides us a users mailing list and we would like to transition > grails > > questions to the mailing list. We intend to keep slack as an alternative > > means of communication and log github discussions to the users mailing > list > > too. > > > > Is there any disagreement to this proposal? The idea is we'll remove > > references to stack overflow on our website & suggest people ask > questions > > on the users mailing list, github discussions, or slack instead. > > > > -James >
