I also monitor the watir tag at stackoverflow.com. There have been very few queries there, and if they are of slightly higher quality than the average question here, I think that it is because of the barriers to entry there (OpenID, website vs email, etc).
There is another site that I think might make more sense than stackoverflow. http://testing.stackexchange.com <http://testing.stackexchange.com/> is a hosted stackoverflow solution that is specific to testing. It is still young, and does not even have a watir tag yet. I don't think that either of these solutions is capable of replacing watir-general at this time. I am willing to join and contribute to a watir-beginners list. I also wonder whether some sort of FAQ posted on a regular basis, probably mainly pointing to the wiki/documentation, would help with these problems. /\/\ark _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Željko Filipin Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Answering incomplete requests I have been thinking about this for a long time, and it just came to me that it is related to this thread. I think the time has come to take Watir support to the next level. Have you heard about site called Stack Overflow? I use it all the time. Created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. If you do not know who they are just google them. How it works? You log in with openid, ask question, tag it with watir. There is a feed for the tag. We subscribe to the feed and answer questions. It is the future of support. It is a very useful merge of support forum, digg and wiki with features like tagging questions, closing duplicate questions (with link to original question), voting on good questions and answers (so good and interesting questions and answers float to the top). Since it is also a wiki, questions and answers can be edited (including adding and removing tags). When you type a title for the question and start typing the body, it automatically searches the site and displays similar questions under the title. Just what we need. No more "please search before you ask". The site searches for you. There are some watir questions already there, but not much. I have put some to try things out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watir http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firewatir Watin folks use it much more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/watin You get points for each up vote you get. There are also badges. Makes answering questions more like a game. There is added benefit. If we get a question that is for example more ruby related, we can tag it with ruby (if it is not already tagged) and then all users that follow that tag will see it and probably answer. We could close this group, or leave it only for discussion, and move all support to Stack Overflow. We could make this group moderated, and approve only discussion posts, and reject all support with a note to post ti to Stack Overflow. If we agree on that, I volunteer to do that for the next month, and probably longer if needed. More information: http://stackoverflow.com/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow If anybody wants to know more about it, just ask. If this is not appropriate place to talk about it, sent your question to me directly. What do you think? Has the time to move come? Or do you think we should stay here for now? Željko __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4556 (20091029) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4557 (20091030) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4558 (20091030) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
