On 2 May 2013 14:31, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:15:46PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> On 15 April 2013 18:36, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > We still get user questions on Launchpad and questions have started to
>> > appear on the new mailing list.
>> >
>> > I suggest we try to move the user questions (or a subset of them) to
>> > stackexchange as quickly as possible.
>> >
>> > We need to write a short list of instructions for what kinds of
>> > questions and discussion should go to which place.
>> >
>> > Here's a starting point:
>> >
>> > (1) scicomp.stackexchange: user questions
>> >
>> > - user question: how do I do <foo> in FEniCS?
>> > - user question: what is a stable method for <foo> (in FEniCS)?
>> >
>>
>> Looks good. We should
>>
>> (a) encourage the posting of short but complete code when appropriate
>> (b) the formulation of precise questions
>> (c) reporting of FEniCS versions for code problems/extracts
>>
>> > (2) this mailing list: announcements and discussions
>> >
>> > - announcements: workshops, releases, tutorials, new mailing list
>> > - discussion of new features
>> > - discussion of development practices
>> > - discussion of releases
>> >
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>> > (3) issue on Bitbucket: bugs and feature requests
>> >
>> > - bug reports
>> > - feature requests
>> >
>>
>> Good, although it might be best that non-trivial feature requests are
>> first discussed on [email protected], and moved to Bitbucket
>> once a general concept is agreed.
>>
>> > (3) comments on Bitbucket: comments on commits
>> >
>> > - developer comments on commits
>> >
>>
>> I really like this.
>>
>> > (?) where should this go?
>> >
>> > - installation issue: can't build on Mac OS X
>> > - installation issue: boost link error
>> > - installation issue: can't find packages for Ubuntu 13.04
>> >
>>
>> Maybe a [email protected] list?
>
> That name seems to indicate all user questions should go there when we
> really want a subset of them to go to stackexchange. But I can't think
> of a better name (fenics-installation, fenics-build, fenics-support?).
>

Yes.

Maybe fenics-support? But it might sound a bit like a paid support service.

Garth

> --
> Anders
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