Good suggestion. I just set up a login for that site and will start spending more time there.
Bret Željko Filipin wrote: > 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
