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Sean P. DeNigris

May 16, 2012; 5:01pm

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I think the options we identified are:
* StackOverflow
* dedicated site
- we seem not to fit stackexchange's guidelines
- our own hosted site, possibly like http://ask.rascal-mpl.org/questions/
* Users mailing list

The disadvantage of the users list vs. the other options is that the domain model is much weaker for questions/answers e.g. was it answered? does the community think it's a good answer?

On the question of internal/external. I guess the big tradeoff is the visibility of something like SO (where the outside world will see the energy of Pharo's Smalltalk revival) vs. keeping control of the content.

Of the two options available this second, which do we prefer to get started - SO, or the users list?

Sean

Cheers,
Sean

Guillermo Polito

May 16, 2012; 5:16pm

Re: User questions

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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> wrote:

I think the options we identified are:
* StackOverflow
* dedicated site
- we seem not to fit stackexchange's guidelines
- our own hosted site, possibly like http://ask.rascal-mpl.org/questions/
* Users mailing list

The disadvantage of the users list vs. the other options is that the domain
model is much weaker for questions/answers e.g. was it answered? does the
community think it's a good answer?

On the question of internal/external. I guess the big tradeoff is the
visibility of something like SO (where the outside world will see the energy
of Pharo's Smalltalk revival) vs. keeping control of the content.

Of the two options available this second, which do we prefer to get started
- SO, or the users list?

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I like SO, but the most important is the discipline. Every time a non-bleedingedge-dev question is sent to the list, we should encourage people to treat it in the corresponding place instead of answer it :).

Sean

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Damien Cassou

May 17, 2012; 8:43am

Re: User questions

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On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Guillermo Polito
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> I like SO, but the most important is the discipline. Every time a
> non-bleedingedge-dev question is sent to the list, we should encourage
> people to treat it in the corresponding place instead of answer it :).

Let's try this, I agree. Please everyone subscribe to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pharo

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Sean P. DeNigris

May 17, 2012; 1:55pm

Re: User questions

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Damien Cassou wrote

Let's try this, I agree. Please everyone subscribe to

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pharo

Done. The default subscription provides daily updates, which is much less frequently than I want. I changed it and added the rss feed at feed://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/pharo to my mail app.

Cheers,
Sean