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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio