Hi, my 3 eurocents:
1) StackExchange is great. It's Q&A style of sharing knowledge is very efficient and pleasure to work with. 2) LilyPond is too small to have its own StackExcange site. If you look at http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/10733/leaving-beta-requirements you'll see that the expected questions/day ratio is 15. We're significantly below this limit. I've looked around on area51 and my general impression is that we're definitely too small with regard to other metrics as well (number of users, etc). I suggest to return to this discussion in 3 years. 3) 2013/11/2 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > Gilberto Agostinho <gilbertohasn...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am also totally up for this idea as well. [StackExchange for LilyPond] > > What's wrong with this list? Everybody wants to take his LilyPond > business to the web interface of his choice that takes a lot of > additional work over just reading and typing text and further dilutes > the LilyPond knowledge. "when all you have is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail". Mailing lists are an all-purpose communication tool. Many things can be done using a mailing list, but some things may be done more efficiently using other tools - for example, most of us thinks that reviewing patches via email is inconvenient, so we use Rietveld. Q&A sites like StackExchange are better for sharing Q&A knowledge than mailing lists because they allow to edit information, update it, remove duplicates, and make order. When searching lilypond mailing list archives, i sometimes get two dozen of different answers, most of which is irrelevant (because it's impossible to find good keywords for the search; StackExchange offers muhc better search), and the other half is scattered all over the place, works only in some LilyPond versions, and the code is scattered too - for example, some functions written by David N and Harm are updated so many times over so many email threads that it's really hard to find the latest version. However, things are still manageable with the mailing list because we're not that big. If there was 10x more traffic, i imagine that a mailing list would become an unholy mess - and coincidentally, with 10x more traffic we would be big enough for a StackExchange site. So, i'd love to see LilyPond on StackExchange, but we may think about it only when we get 10x bigger. best, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
