Or just point to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fish
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Isaac Carter <icarter1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we just setup a StackExchange for fish questions?
> On Jan 14, 2016 7:40 PM, "Mike Meyer" <m...@mired.org> wrote:
>
>> Really doesn't matter how good/painful/etc. the forum is if nobody who
>> can answer questions is monitoring it. That seems to be the problem with
>> IRC. Seems like the problem is "not enough" rather than "nobody", so maybe
>> the solution is a bot that recommends the mail list of there is no response?
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 18:08 Bram Geron <b...@bram.xyz> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have experience with StackExchange chat? It seems designed
>>> for this purpose.
>>>
>>> I know that golang has a Slack (gophers.slack.com), but people must ask
>>> for an invite to gophers.slack.com because Slack doesn't want anyone to
>>> be able to register themselves on any Slack. So Slack is not great.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Bram
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, at 10:37 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Simon Lees <si...@simotek.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not that I'm a active fish developer but in most of the open source
>>> projects I contribute too the channel with the projects name ie #fish is
>>> generally used for user support as this is where users will look, on
>>> smaller projects its also often used for development as well but for any
>>> larger projects generally development is split off into another channel
>>> thats less advertised like maybe #fish-dev for example.
>>>
>>>
>>> There are a couple of problems. First, There are more questions posted
>>> on IRC #fish that this mailing list. By a very wide margin. And most of the
>>> questions posted on IRC don't get a response and the person who asked the
>>> question never follows up with a message to this mailing list or opening a
>>> github issue. Some percentage of those users, perhaps most of them, are
>>> likely to by annoyed that they didn't get an answer. For example, @echindod
>>> asked at 11:29 PST yesterday on IRC:
>>>
>>> "How do you change the color for the Prompt?"
>>>
>>> No one answered and I don't see any indication he fell back to the
>>> mailing list or opened a github issue. At 19:27 @torvhal typed
>>>
>>> "ls"
>>> "fish-shell help"
>>>
>>> I responded 22 minutes later but @torval didn't respond to my response.
>>>
>>> Too, at least at my $day job, it is generally understood that the IRC
>>> channel open to users is meant for time-sensitive issues that don't warrant
>>> paging the on-call person but would benefit from a faster response that is
>>> typically gotten from sending a message to the project mailing list; e.g.,
>>> someone has noticed what might be a problem such as the backlog of jobs
>>> being larger than normal. In the three months I've been monitoring IRC
>>> #fish I've never seen such a question. And I'm hard-pressed given the
>>> nature of the project to envision what such a question would look like.
>>>
>>> Finally, questions and answers on #IRC aren't archived and can't be
>>> searched. If the person asks on the mailing list or github we have a
>>> searchable history of the exchange.
>>>
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