Mind if I jump in and add my $0.02? Some folks out there may not like the mailing list/forum....
Some folks out there may think there is insufficient documentation (that is getting much much better...also read the mailing list everyday just for increased knowledge... find a mentor? I'm lucky I have several at work) Some may not like being required to use their real name...(make up a fake name/pseudonym and move on) What no one should lose sight of is this... OSG is the best tool in its category....period. If you disagree, your wrong... sorry. OSGs acceptance community wide as THE tool to use is proof of this. Check the community/users page for a short list of users... Also consider that it is used in/by numerous govt labs/agencies that do not advertise their use of it for various and obvious reasons. Several years ago when researching OSG for use on a project, I found, if I recall correctly, that OSG had over 40 man years of development time invested into it. (Robert is that correct?) I would rather have the leaders of the OSG community continue this dedicated persuit of excellence of product than try to find other ways to communicate with the users when what is in place works. I guess the point(s) of my rambling is this: 1. Mega Kudos to Robert and all the OSG folks for an awesome industry leading tool 2. even better that it is free and open source and 3. is it really such a high price to pay to sign up for this forum or mailing list if you need help? Nav wrote: > Firstly, thank you Robert and Jan, for considering my request. I'm glad that > people on the mailing list have been responding so quickly to the technical > questions I had too. > > The time of leading contributors is most important, which is why > StackOverflow (SO) has already taken care of the matter. Why else would it be > the most thriving forum on the internet? Eg: When a person starts asking a > new question, an algorithm shows similar questions to the person on-the-fly, > so that they won't have to ask the same question and take up time of the > leading contributors. Even if the question gets asked, users with sufficient > privileges/reputation > (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/) can mark the > question as a duplicate and close it, so that someone else won't have to > bother looking at it. > Even without logging in, you can click on the OpenSceneGraph tag on SO and > it'll show you with customized icons, which questions need your attention and > which have already been answered satisfactorily. There's also the RSS feed > and notifications > (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/05/revamped-notifications/). I promise > you, you'll be saving a lot more time. > > Jan, seriously, I (am humbly mentioning that I) tend to be efficient when it > comes to using a search tool, and there's good reason I'm recommending SO's > voted up answers. It's because even with Google's indexing, I've found it > arduous to search for answers in a forum and even to have to follow a long > discussion until I could decide that I could actually contribute to that > thread. SO does away with all these problems. > > Those of you who value your time, I'd humbly recommend that you join SO just > to see what it is like, and maybe help out people with ordinary C++ questions > and see how things work until you get a reputation of 100 points at least. > Perhaps then, you yourself might recommend SO. I'm glad y'all were willing to > discuss it instead of flatly shooting it down. If you prefer the mailing > list, then no problem. I'm also happy to be using the OSG forum. ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=48313#48313 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
