On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:15:46PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On 15 April 2013 18:36, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We still get user questions on Launchpad and questions have started to
> > appear on the new mailing list.
> >
> > I suggest we try to move the user questions (or a subset of them) to
> > stackexchange as quickly as possible.
> >
> > We need to write a short list of instructions for what kinds of
> > questions and discussion should go to which place.
> >
> > Here's a starting point:
> >
> > (1) scicomp.stackexchange: user questions
> >
> > - user question: how do I do <foo> in FEniCS?
> > - user question: what is a stable method for <foo> (in FEniCS)?
> >
>
> Looks good. We should
>
> (a) encourage the posting of short but complete code when appropriate
> (b) the formulation of precise questions
> (c) reporting of FEniCS versions for code problems/extracts
>
> > (2) this mailing list: announcements and discussions
> >
> > - announcements: workshops, releases, tutorials, new mailing list
> > - discussion of new features
> > - discussion of development practices
> > - discussion of releases
> >
>
> Sounds good.
>
> > (3) issue on Bitbucket: bugs and feature requests
> >
> > - bug reports
> > - feature requests
> >
>
> Good, although it might be best that non-trivial feature requests are
> first discussed on [email protected], and moved to Bitbucket
> once a general concept is agreed.
>
> > (3) comments on Bitbucket: comments on commits
> >
> > - developer comments on commits
> >
>
> I really like this.
>
> > (?) where should this go?
> >
> > - installation issue: can't build on Mac OS X
> > - installation issue: boost link error
> > - installation issue: can't find packages for Ubuntu 13.04
> >
>
> Maybe a [email protected] list?

That name seems to indicate all user questions should go there when we
really want a subset of them to go to stackexchange. But I can't think
of a better name (fenics-installation, fenics-build, fenics-support?).

--
Anders
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