Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-08-23 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Hi all, Preliminary content here: https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Howtoask Please feel free to improve, and paste the link in launchpad whenever it applies. Cheers Bruno On 29 June 2018 at 16:24, Bruno Chareyre wrote: > I did not mention it explicitly but I think improving "How to ask" > includes expl

Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Bruno Chareyre
I did not mention it explicitly but I think improving "How to ask" includes explaining "how to" avoid extra files in typical cases. Otherwise it would just discourage people from asking. I tried to address one possible situation in [1] (avoid saving simulation in one script then reloading in an

Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Bruno Chareyre
On 06/29/2018 02:57 PM, Robert Caulk wrote:  these pastebin links are susceptible to breaking [...] degrade the quality and resiliency of the yade launchpad answer forum. Very good point. I’ve noticed another problem though: few users read the "how to ask", even after we explicitly direct th

Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Robert Caulk
I agree that we should encourage users to submit entirely self contained scripts. In addition to the inconveniences pointed out by Bruno, these pastebin links are susceptible to breaking AND they deny future users the ability to search for script keywords with the launchpad search bar. No doubt, th

Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Jan Stránský
I agree too, I would add a note that the problem might be solved by the process of creating MWE.. > Jan is probably too kind for that ;-) well, it annoys me more and more, too, so I will at least answer with delay :-) cheers Jan 2018-06-29 14:09 GMT+02:00 Jerome Duriez : > Hi all, > > I agre

Re: [Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Jerome Duriez
Hi all, I agree Bruno with your description of the annoying extra efforts that are required to try to help with such questions. As far as I am concerned, I do not try downloading things and help in these cases... My first suggestion would be to further push users to propose (for real !!!) mi

[Yade-dev] About pastebin and data files in launchpad questions

2018-06-29 Thread Bruno Chareyre
Hi Yade devs, When I try to save a few minutes to answer some questions I very ofen find myself clicking here and there to access a pastebin file which is needed for a given script to run. The [pastebin|whateve|...] file can't downloaded directly in many cases. I then have to copy - which can i