I believe the community would be better served by using Stackoverflow for Q&A and using the newsgroups for non Q&A freeform discussions/ news. I think this would seperate and emphasize the highly reusable information, Q&A, from the often transient/limited use information/ discussion. There is alot of activity on this newsgroup, which can make it challenging to find answers to previously asked questions... signal to noise mismatch.
On Oct 5, 8:26 am, monotasker <scotti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using web2py for about six weeks now and am loving the supportive > community. I notice that there's a strong push to focus that community > discussion here on the Google group. I wonder if this has some > disadvantages, though: > > a) It seems difficult sometimes to find previous discussions of the same > issue. So I suspect people are answering the same question more than they > need to sometimes. Here it seems like Stackoverflow helps to streamline the > support process. > > b) The focus on the Google group means that the web2py name isn't popping up > as often in "mixed" forums like Stackoverflow. I think that creates the > impression that web2py has fewer users than it really does. > > So would there be some value in encouraging people to direct specific > support questions to Stackoverflow and reserving the Google group for things > like announcements, open-ended discussion, threads about resources and > hosting, etc? > > Ian
