On the hijacked tutorial subject - forum and/or email list A forum is an online activity whilst an email list is an offline activity, which means that I can get on with other things rather constantly watching a forum window for a critical reply - such as actually figuring out a solution for myself and learning something in the process.
On the original subject - tutorials. My experience is that tutorials as far as possible should be part of the main source code, because they become the test harnesses of the main code - if they don't work then something is wrong and needs to be fixed. Also it keeps the tutorials refreshed and working with the evolving interfaces. The real trick is then to not to go wild on the production of new tutorials if existing tutorials can be extended to demonstrate new features, otherwise we could end up with even more of a maintenance headache. PhilT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Osfield Sent: 27 August 2007 09:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [osg-users] Tutorials Hi Rick, The forum vs mailing list issue has been done to death many times. Some people swear by forums, some detest them, some people swear by mailing lists, some others detest, others don't care. Having mailing lists *and* forums just splits the community and critically those delving out support. There is absolutely no way on earth I can afford my time to be stretched out any further, and my guess others are in a similar boat. For this reason you won't be finding me or many others on the forums or IRC channels, and without the driving forces being the OSG being one these channels of support they won't of little use. Since splitting damages the communities ability to provide support and to generally function, then one really has to keep community in one place, this should either be a mailing list OR a forum OR and this would be my ideal a system where users can choose to doing either use mailing list or a forum. Provision of such as system is not a trivial matter, and something than members of the community will have to step up to help provide as I don't have the expertise or the resources to provide it myself. Robert. On 8/27/07, Ricko 3D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. Seems funny to say anything is here to stay > related to any constantly evolving technology project, or anything related > to the Internet. I was just offering my observations coming at this project > fresh. My opinion was simply that the mailing list method seems outdated. I > wasn't suggesting it is not effective, just comparing it to the > features/benefits of newer community technologies I've used on other > projects. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
