[vtkusers] Mailing list or forum or SO?

[Andy Bauer]

Good points Dave! The only criticism is that it's not always clear what a
non-programming question is. I guess that can be handled in the reputation
system and comments.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:52 AM, David Cole via vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
wrote:

> Every time I've looked for the solution to a practical programming
> related issue in the last 6 or 7 years, an answer to a Stack Overflow
> question has been the most reliable source of information, often all
> right there in the answer, and if not, then in pages linked directly
> from the answer. Every time.
>
> Every. Single. Time.
>
> Usually in the top 5, and frequently in the top 2, Google results.
> There is absolutely no question: Stack Overflow beats mailing lists,
> hands down, for search-ability.
>
> So.... when your question is: "this won't compile or link, how come?"
> or "why doesn't this code work even though it builds ok?" or "this
> code works on Linux and Mac, but crashes in our Windows build, why?"
> or "what's wrong with this CMakeLists.txt snippet? it's not doing what
> I thought it should do..." -- it belongs on Stack Overflow. Once
> you've asked it there, by all means, post a link to it here in the VTK
> mailing list, with a simple rephrasing of the question.
>
> The mailing list is also very useful, and some questions are more
> general VTK philosophy type questions, and the people on the mailing
> list are generally friendly and helpful. Non-programming questions do
> not belong on Stack Overflow... So I wouldn't *stop* asking for help
> here... But if it's a programming question, it totally belongs on
> Stack Overflow, with a link posted here.
>
>
> My 2 cents worth,
> David C.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Lonni Besançon
> <lonni.besancon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Indeed, I reckon the reputation system has proven to be useful in the
> past
> > and it will surely works for VTK too.
> > So far the number of questions asked on VTK is quite low on SO but I
> think
> > the advantages it offers are useful: easier to post code, reputation
> system,
> > answers easy to find via Google afterwards so as to avoid duplicates, ...
> >
> > Would love to get the opinion of other members of the community and more
> > precisely of people from Kitware that would be awesome.
> >
> >
> >
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