What's the benefit of using a more specific community over just the tag in stackoverflow? What do other libraries do?
On 08/16/2014 02:10 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hey, I decided to spend a little bit of time and look at stack >> exchange in order to help support a better development community. The >> relevant information is here: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/help/product-support >> >> There is already a gtk+ tag already. So I'm not sure what else needs >> to be done. Questions are getting answered from what I can tell. So >> there is a community here already, but perhaps we can make it better >> and promote it more? > > So it looks like you can create a specific community around GTK+. > Here is the place to start: > > http://area51.stackexchange.com/ > > You get people to sign off on the site, and then get a following. If > you gain enough it gets proposed under the 'beta' heading and then > from there it can become a real site. I think this is really a great > process. > > I would like to get agreement from everyone (both engagement, > documentation, and developers) so that I can go forward. Please read > the FAQ first: > > http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq > > Once, we at least get it in staging we will need to get a lot of > people to sign up on it. Monitoring is still going to be a challenge, > but I'll figure that out later. > > sri > >> >> sri > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
