Thank you for being open to the idea of shifting to StackOverflow (SO). I did a bit of searching, and was surprised to find that the idea was not new.
First, I found that SO already supports a feed. I clicked on this link http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=openscenegraph&sort=newest and Thunderbird (which I use instead of Outlook) opened up and showed me all the new questions tagged with OpenSceneGraph in SO. So you've already got your mailing-list-style option for questions. There's an admin who posted his opinion on using SO for questions and the mailing list for announcements: http://antlr.1301665.n2.nabble.com/contemplating-a-move-of-mailing-list-to-stackoverflow-com-td7457931.html And the SO moderators opinion on it: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51229/convert-mailing-list-users-to-stack-overflow Went through the links you sent, and I know it'd be a bit difficult to convince people to shift to a new forum, but personally, I've found SO's question-answer format to be very helpful in getting good answers from people, and the provision of comments below the answers, the chatrooms, the wiki format and the stackexchange notifications to be very helpful. I appreciate the amount of investment that has gone into creating a mailing list and a forum that interfaces with it. It would be great if we could also use the popular framework that SO provides. The only current problem with asking questions on SO is that all the experts of OSG are here in the OSG forum, so there's nobody to answer questions in SO :-) (ps: a colleague tried registering into this forum and it didn't allow him saying that only one registration is allowed per IP. I guess the forum is considering my company's IP instead of the individual computer's IP) ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=48272#48272 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
