Hi Lewis,
With every programming language there are multiple sources of
information. I have used the stack exchange sites for different
languages and I thought one for EPICS might be a good idea and wanted
to know if anyone else thought so as well. For a beginner online
documentation is very important, a Stack Exchange site would give more
visibility to the EPICS community, give higher rankings in search
results, allow code examples to be shared, and a more diverse set of
tools when one is looking for help.
That being said it is just a suggestion, and there is the issue of the
already established tech-talk mailing list, and conflicting
information sources. I'm just presenting options and suggestions, if
people would like to use it, it is there, I'm a beginner with ideas.
Abe
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, J. Lewis Muir<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/17/11 4:02 PM, Abraham Massry wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I just created a proposal for an EPICS stackoverflow site. I think it
would be really helpful for everyone just getting into EPICS and it
would also help build the community. stackoverflow accommodates a
wide variety of scripting and programming languages, so why not a
control system. If anyone else is interested in this idea you can
follow and post questions to the site.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36580/epics?referrer=3A1GD-BHwZmMN-Mfeqxi-Q2
Hi, Abe.
I think some of the Stack Exchange sites are nice, but I feel
that the EPICS community is already well served via this
Tech-Talk mailing list. To move questions to a Stack Exchange
site would just make it so I have to check two locations instead
of one when searching for an answer to a question or when asking
a question. That doesn't sound very good to me.
Why do you think an EPICS Stack Exchange site is needed?
Lewis