Hi,
It's good news. Stack Overflow is a more general place not to discuss just
GNURadio, also *topics little related *to GNURadio can be discussed there
(as they may be disgusting to be discussed here!).

Thank you Martin.

Best,
Mostafa

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Martin Braun <[email protected]> wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> we're in an interesting spot community-wise right now, which should be
> clear to people who've been around here for a while, and definitely to
> everyone at GRCon last year. While we're still a smallish free software
> project compared to KDE, Linux etc. we've gained a lot of traction in
> the last years. Also, we cover an interesting spot where all the serious
> competitors are expensive proprietary software.
>
> But let's cut to the chase: With a community that's growing as fast as
> it is, we'll need to open up new avenues for communication, and weaken
> our stance that the mailing list is the one-and-only place to ask
> questions. For this reason, we would like to publicly announce that
> we'll be promoting Stack Overflow as an alternative from now on.
>
> Right now, it's just regular Stack Overflow with questions tagged
> 'gnuradio'. And people have already been using this:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnuradio
>
> This was brought up at the "Community" working group at GRCon'14, and
> Samantha (you may remember her from the panel) has volunteered to
> initially make sure this gets off on a good start by monitoring SO
> activities.
>
> Now, some disclaimers: Most of us core developers probably won't be
> jumping onto this, you'll find us mostly on this mailing list in the
> future, as it is right now. However, with such a growth in the community
> (at conferences all over the world, people who I've never heard of are
> doing GNU Radio tutorials. That's a good sign!), I'm hoping there'll be
> enough volunteers to keep this going.
>
> Also, some things are simply better done on the mailing list than Stack
> Overflow, such as lively discussions, announcements, bug dissections
> etc. But we get enough one-off questions here which would be better
> suited on Stack Overflow. The biggest advantage, if you ask me, is that
> questions tagged 'good' on Stack Overflow are very easy to find, and
> search engines such as DuckDuckGo show these answers directly at the top
> of search results. Much, much easier than searching the ML archives.
>
> OK, everyone. Let's do this.
>
> Martin
>
> tl;dr: Stack Overflow can and should be used for questions as well as
> the mailing list, and we need people to read and answer those Q's.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
>



-- 
***********************************************************
Department of Electrical Engineering
Aboureyhan Building
MMWCL LAB
Amirkabir University Of Technology
Tehran
IRAN
Tel: +98 (919) 158-7730
LAB: http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~mmwcl/?page_id=411
Homepage: http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~alizadeh/
***********************************************************
_______________________________________________
Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Reply via email to