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/ ***********************************************************
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