[Paraview] interface for Paraview help?

[Berk Geveci]

We started working on a user's guide. We are writing it as part of the
Wiki and we will use the Wiki book functionality to generate PDF from
it. Once we make some progress, we will ask for the help of the
community. I know that it is not the same thing as stackoverflow but
it should address the documentation gap.

-berk

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 26. Aug, 2010, at 17:21 , Dan Lussier wrote:
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>> I was wondering if the KitWare guys had considered a stackoverflow.com type of interface for Paraview help? The mailing list is great for some things, but doesn't work as well for those repeated 'how does this feature work' type of questions.
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>> This type of forum appears to work pretty well for general software development and computer issues (superuser.com) so it might help augment the ParaView wiki, which is already home to more long form articles.
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>> Just an idea.
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> I don't agree with that. Although perhaps a bit more searchable/discoverable and certainly more fancy-looking, it doesn't prevent from people asking the same questions over and over again. The only solution to these kind of questions is to finally write real in-application docs. The current help is just unusable...
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> Michael
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