Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-29 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Hi Ken, Andrew, Thank you for your thoughts! I had considered a Stack Exchange and have set up a couple of experimental QA communities using it. After the seeing what the Android and Adbobe teams are doing I think it makes much more sense to keep the programming discussion in one place on and

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-29 Thread Zac Bowling
Basic questions get answered usually here just as long as they are not obvious questions on the Wiki. :-) Stack Overflow has a lot of overflow (no pun) with other development communities. You see a lot of questions around how to use the twitter API with specific languages or frameworks on Stack

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-29 Thread Jonathan Markwell
Hi Zac, These are some great points! On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Zac Bowling zbowl...@gmail.com wrote: Basic questions get answered usually here just as long as they are not obvious questions on the Wiki. :-) That doesn't really mean they shouldn't be answered at all. If new members of

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-28 Thread Abraham Williams
It seems like creating a stackexchange would just split the support power. Better to just push people to the Stackoverflow tag. Just noticed that Adobe is also using Stackoverflow for official support. One issue I've noticed with Stackoverflow is it is harder for new developers to participate

RE: [twitter-dev] Twitter Developer QA on Stack Overflow

2009-12-28 Thread Ken Dobruskin
It seems like creating a stackexchange would just split the support power. +1, totally. One issue I've noticed with Stackoverflow is it is harder for new developers to participate where as the barrier for entry on Google Groups is just having an email address. Some email groups can be very