Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Questions on StackOverflow

[Martin Braun]

Let me emphasize this. The mailing list is terrible for searching, and
stack overflow is highly optimized to show the correct results, *if* we
have enough Q's and A's on there.

This is also about the efficiency of this list. The aforementioned bad
indexing means we'll get a lot of repeated questions, and we can't
really blame people for that. Stack Overflow is simply a much better
forum for simple questions with simple answers, while the mailing list
is unbeatable for discussions.

Cheers,
Martin


On 07/27/2016 10:16 AM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi People,
> 
> at Grcon'14 we decided to reach out to the GR community forming on
> StackOverflow. We did – and I really think this is a great thing.
> 
> However, this support has come to somewhat of a halt. There's a bunch of
> questions[1] on StackOverflow that I can't answer, mostly due to
> temporal restrictions. Most of these aren't really hard to answer at all
> – an easy way to get StackOverflow Reputation¹ as a "SO newb".
> 
> So, if anyone of you has got time on their hands to help a few users
> that are lost with a few problems, taking the time to look, maybe
> comment, or answer questions on StackOverflow on StackOverflow, I think
> that would be a valuable contribution to the whole community process.
> 
> Otherwise, we might as well call off the whole "let's help people on SO"
> deal – and rather point them directly to the mailing list in comments. I
> don't think the separation that mailing list vs SO is facing currently
> is a good thing, if only mailing list users get "premium" support :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marcus
> 
> 
> ¹ Yes. They officially came up with a unit to measure credibility of
> internet strangers.
> [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=active&q=%5bgnuradio%5d%20%20or%20%5bgnuradio-companion%5d%20answers%3a0
> 
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