On 14/03/2014 13:10, Christopher Schultz wrote: > All, > > I'm finding a lot of questions lately posted simultaneously to > both tomcat-user and to StackOverflow. How does the Tomcat > community feel about that? I'm wondering whether I (as a member of > said community) should be encouraging SO users to post here or get > their answers here or whether its worth it to answer both places or > what. > > Assuming that the user bothers to check both places for an answer, > it doesn't matter to them whether the answer comes on SO or > tomcat-user. > > On the one hand, SO rewards accepted answers with karma points, so > that's kinda nice, but I don't really give a crap about that. On > the other hand, the ASF is about community, and I feel like growing > the community is an important part of being a member. Additionally, > I really think that SO is a great site and quite helpful (their > community has helped me out a number of times) and therefore don't > want to diminish /their/ community by, for example, refusing to > answer directly over there. > > But it's a pain in the butt to craft an answer on tomcat-user to > try to help someone and then see the same question later on SO.
Copy and paste? While something that is effectively cross-posting is annoying for those us subscribed to this list and who use stack overflow I can understand folks wanting to seek help from a range of different places. SO is meant to be about programming so one thing you can do is vote to close /flag non-programming questions on SO. Granted, they might just move to server fault but I doubt it. There was talk a while ago of trying to create some form of link between SO and Apache user lists but there isn't an easy mapping available. Overall, I think we just have to live with it. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
