Hello, First, I am not really a major OSG contributor - Robert is a much bigger weight here. I only wanted to give a point of view from the "mailing list camp".
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Nav Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan, seriously, I (am humbly mentioning that I) tend to be efficient when > it comes to using a search tool, and there's good reason I'm recommending > SO's voted up answers. It's because even with Google's indexing, I've found > it arduous to search for answers in a forum and even to have to follow a > long discussion until I could decide that I could actually contribute to > that thread. SO does away with all these problems. > > Those of you who value your time, I'd humbly recommend that you join SO > just to see what it is like, and maybe help out people with ordinary C++ > questions and see how things work until you get a reputation of 100 points > at least. Perhaps then, you yourself might recommend SO. I'm glad y'all > were willing to discuss it instead of flatly shooting it down. If you > prefer the mailing list, then no problem. I'm also happy to be using the > forum. > I know Stack Overflow, but as I said - the idea of moving the OSG list members to SO is a non starter. You do not need to try to convince me - I am way too small fish to decide something like that anyway. The issues you mention are exactly why people use e-mail and not forums - it is easy to follow discussions and to search them without having to leave a tool they have to use for work anyway (e-mail is still the essential business collaboration mean). Also, SO is targeted more to support - ask a question, someone answers. That is *not* what the mailing list primary purpose is - the list is first and foremost a collaboration tool between developers living and working in different countries. Many of the discussions are not in the form of questions and answers that can be voted up and down. Supporting OSG users is a side effect - the questions are certainly welcome, but the list is not only about them. Unless you are willing to pay for someone's time to "sit" on SO and watch for OSG-related questions there, it is unlikely to happen. I do not want to sound rude, but I do find it a bit odd that on one hand you find the current setup inconvenient for you because you have to look in various places for OSG-related info and not on StackOverflow that you are obviously using for other things as well. On the other hand, you are proposing that the actual development community moves to adopt a tool less fit for their needs, adding to their workload, so that it makes your life easier. Do you think that is a fair proposition to make? Regards, Jan
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