Hello, On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Nav Joseph <nk...@tatapowersed.com> wrote:
> Hi Jan, > > I hadn't meant creating extra hoops. The idea was that it'd be easier for > people looking for OSG answers to find it easily on the StackOverflow > answering framework, if everyone on the mailing list shifted to > StackOverflow, and so that the moderators of the OSG forum could be spared > of the moderating effort. > I think you didn't consider the fact that the there are perfectly good tools for this already - mailing list and if you need to search for answers, there is Google (it indexes the archives) and Gmane ( http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.openscenegraph.user/). > I haven't ever used a mailing list, but from what you mention, it appears > a lot more convenient for people who are using it. Perhaps y'all would have > an easy way of going back and finding the answer to the questions you asked > on the mailing list, without having to first go through a lot of emails. > Thanks for mentioning that mailing lists are faster. I didn't know mailing > lists had these advantages. Since you suggested it, I've already > recommended my colleagues to try the mailing list. > I rarely if ever have to go through "a lot of e-mails" (and I do receive lots of them). There are tools such as automatic filters, there is search (gmail's one is great, Thunderbird has a very decent search as well). It is a way of organizing work. Mailing lists are a very old-school collaboration tool (they pretty much pre-date internet), but they work well and there are plenty of tools to deal with them. [Still, it'd be nice if there was a teensy little chance that people > migrated to StackOverflow :-) ] > I wouldn't say that something like that is impossible, but the chance is likely infinitesimal. As Robert explained elsewhere, "One thing I would like to add is that most precious resource in the OSG community is not the time of end users but the time of the leading contributors." Amen. Regards, Jan
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