On 26. Aug, 2010, at 17:21 , Dan Lussier wrote:

> I was wondering if the KitWare guys had considered a stackoverflow.com type 
> of interface for Paraview help? The mailing list is great for some things, 
> but doesn't work as well for those repeated 'how does this feature work' type 
> of questions.
> 
> This type of forum appears to work pretty well for general software 
> development and computer issues (superuser.com) so it might help augment the 
> ParaView wiki, which is already home to more long form articles.
> 
> Just an idea.

I don't agree with that. Although perhaps a bit more searchable/discoverable 
and certainly more fancy-looking, it doesn't prevent from people asking the 
same questions over and over again. The only solution to these kind of 
questions is to finally write real in-application docs. The current help is 
just unusable...

Michael

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