> On 12 Dec 2014, at 22:53, Mark Bestley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/12/2014 13:08, Yuriy Tymchuk wrote: >> >>> On 12 Dec 2014, at 11:57, [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, so this message is about SODD (Stack Overflow Driven >>> Development) and Pharo/Smalltalk. >>> >>> If you look at the last questions of this guy: >>> http://stackoverflow.com/users/1906070/shiran?tab=questions you >>> can see that they are about smalltalk/squeak and asked in last 2 >>> days :). >>> >>> In fact I think that we should support asking questions on SO, as >>> a lot of people are anxious to register and talk to others on >>> mailing list, and prefer to search for solutions on SO. If we’ll >>> build reasonable amount of Q/A data, it can be easier for other >>> people to start with Pharo. >>> > > However the questions should be better than these last few. This asker looks > like a beginner learning and I think would be better off with a tutorial > which is not supported by Stack Overflow. I suspect by asking several > questions in a short time they are likely to be stopped from asking questions > for a bit - there is a rate limit as people who ask lots of questions tend to > have poor questions are are wanting the answerers to do their work - in this > case the asker is asking OK questions but that is not what we normally see in > Stack Overflow (see PHP questions for what the SO system has to deal with and > see that even at beginner level Smalltalkers seem to at least know how to ask > questions better than for other languages.)
Yes, these questions are very poor, but maybe they can be useful for someone… My point is that maybe we can tell people that if they have problems they can also ask them on SO with “pharo” tag. > > > You can create a good question and answer it yourself if you want to > document/show something. Yes, I try to do this prom time to time. > >>> >>> Yes, there is some activity on SO and also interesting content over there. >>> >>> I find it a bit complicated to find about Pharo/Smalltalk questions in >>> an easy way. Searching by tag (Pharo) gives a list of old questions. >>> >>> How do you get the last questions in an easy way? > > I create favourites on tags e.g. smalltalk pharo etc. > Then when you login to Stack Overflow click on one of these tags > > Note these last few questions were tagged smalltalk and squeak not pharo True, that’s why we have to promote pharo. > >> >> There is a newest tab: >> https://space.zeo.net/g/54ma0/YYDRJUBFXB7NVBG7LMXTNECCQVWXWL3K >> > > That is not a stack overflow page. That’s a screenshot of SO page showing that you can browse latest questions. > >> Also you can subscribe to a tag and be notified by email. >> > > I am and these questions have not shown up yet - they tend to take a day to > come through > > > -- > Mark > >
