Hi,
On 07/16/12 10:20, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Am 16.07.2012 um 10:14 schrieb Ivan Vuc(ica:
I'm wondering if it isn't better if people just used StackOverflow
and tagged GNUstep-specific questions with "gnustep". We simply don't
have the user base that would make a Q&A system useful, and would
instead probably linger empty and unused. (You know the sight: three
year old forums with a total of 50 posts.)
I totally agree from experiences in other projects. There, we run a
mailing list and every now and then someone asks for a Forum. We have
installed that but even those who asked don't subscribe and use it...
that is my feeling too. The opposite exists too: very active forums and
little used mailing lists. It depends on the user base.
Most of the more "seasoned" or "experienced" developers and users dwell
on the mailing lists... In a small community migrating to a different
system might mean it will not be used much, or that answers given will
be potentially incorrect without others reading them.
Of course, this just a hypothesis.
Mailing lists are also a nice and traditional way of getting
attention of GNUstep developers. Even now we have more communication
channels and mailing lists than we can use well; discuss-gnustep ends
up being the most active one, and it's used for all purposes
(development decisions, announcements...), even in cases where other
special-purpose mailing lists exist.
Setting up a Q&A system is probably a good way to ensure questions
posted there remain unnoticed and unanswered.
The traditional way for Q&A is/was that someone collects a FAQ
document and posts it every month to the mailing list.
The problem is that "someone" doesn't exist, thus things get outdated.
Abram's idea is thus a system that is more collaboratively based where
the answers get collected automatically.
Riccardo
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