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Mikko Ohtamaa |
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Hi,
I am quite new to stackoverflow.om services. I am really happy for the fact that we finally get rid of "forums" and give the users a solution they are expected to use. Now my question is that how stackoverflow.com Plone questions has taken off? Is there anything we could, as community members, to do there? I tried to subscribe some feed "Plone hot questions" but that feed really hasn't given me anything yet... -Mikko |
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Il 01/03/2011 10:40, Mikko Ohtamaa ha scritto:
> Hi, > > I am quite new to stackoverflow.om services. I am really happy for the fact > that we finally get rid of "forums" and give the users a solution they are > expected to use. > > Now my question is that how stackoverflow.com Plone questions has taken off? > Is there anything we could, as community members, to do there? I tried to > subscribe some feed "Plone hot questions" but that feed really hasn't given > me anything yet... > I've subscribed to: http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/plone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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We just started pushing people there a few days ago, as an experiment.
If the experiment is successful, we'll think about killiing off the plone-users email list, but not for a while yet. It's too early to draw any conclusions. :jon On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Mikko Ohtamaa <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am quite new to stackoverflow.om services. I am really happy for the fact > that we finally get rid of "forums" and give the users a solution they are > expected to use. > > Now my question is that how stackoverflow.com Plone questions has taken off? > Is there anything we could, as community members, to do there? I tried to > subscribe some feed "Plone hot questions" but that feed really hasn't given > me anything yet... > > -Mikko > > ----- > > Follow me in Twitter > > > > Download mFabrik News for iPhone > or Android > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/How-has-stackoverflow-taken-off-tp6076614p6076614.html > Sent from the General Questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in > Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data > generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual > or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business > insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Plone-Users mailing list > [hidden email] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Martin Aspeli |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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On 1 March 2011 09:45, Yuri <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Il 01/03/2011 10:40, Mikko Ohtamaa ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >> I am quite new to stackoverflow.om services. I am really happy for the fact >> that we finally get rid of "forums" and give the users a solution they are >> expected to use. >> >> Now my question is that how stackoverflow.com Plone questions has taken off? >> Is there anything we could, as community members, to do there? I tried to >> subscribe some feed "Plone hot questions" but that feed really hasn't given >> me anything yet... >> > > > I've subscribed to: http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/plone Bear in mind that it's quite new. It may be an idea to post to plone-users and suggest people look at Stackoverflow? Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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I've posted a couple of questions there in the last few days and the
responses have been superb. The interface makes conversation and discussion so much more rewarding than the standard forum approach. Count me as a great experience for an average developer/integrator who tends to neglect forums and irc channels. Thanks to all who provided the support. Regards, -Arryn Pidwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Derek Broughton-3 |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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On Mar 1, 1:23 pm, Jon Stahl <[hidden email]> wrote:
> We just started pushing people there a few days ago, as an experiment. > If the experiment is successful, we'll think about killiing off the > plone-users email list, but not for a while yet. It's too early to > draw any conclusions. Damn, I hate that idea - but I know I'm a dinosaur. I _do_ like StackOverFlow (it's what ExpertsExchange should have been, if the ExpertsExchange people hadn't been focused on revenue ahead of function) but the only way to be _notified_ of questions (as opposed to browsing just like a forum) is by RSS, and that means "no threading". It's nice to be able to ignore entire threads - either because you can't help, they're not applicable to anything you do, or they've devolved into an argument between Dieter and Andreas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Roché Compaan |
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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, derek <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 1:23 pm, Jon Stahl <[hidden email]> wrote: >> We just started pushing people there a few days ago, as an experiment. >> If the experiment is successful, we'll think about killiing off the >> plone-users email list, but not for a while yet. It's too early to >> draw any conclusions. > > Damn, I hate that idea - but I know I'm a dinosaur. I hate the idea too! I can't imagine an open source community (except for PHP ones) functioning without an email interface. -- Roché Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Martin Aspeli |
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2011/3/3 Roché Compaan <[hidden email]>:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, derek <[hidden email]> wrote: >> On Mar 1, 1:23 pm, Jon Stahl <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> We just started pushing people there a few days ago, as an experiment. >>> If the experiment is successful, we'll think about killiing off the >>> plone-users email list, but not for a while yet. It's too early to >>> draw any conclusions. >> >> Damn, I hate that idea - but I know I'm a dinosaur. > > I hate the idea too! I can't imagine an open source community (except > for PHP ones) functioning without an email interface. The open source community will continue to function with email interfaces. plone-developers, product-developers, framework-team, membership and all the other lists remain, as does plone-user, at least for now. This is purely about providing community support when people have questions. The plone-user mailing list is not great for that because: - A lot of business users use Outlook. Mailing lists in Outlook is a travesty. - A lot of people don't want a hundred emails a day from plone-user in their inbox just to ask for some help. - We push people to Nabble for signup so they can choose to use a TTW interface. The Nabble signup process is insanely convoluted (and this can't be fixed, since it's really just fronting mailman). We lose a lot of people this way. - People don't search the archives (which anyway is awkward), so we get the same questions asked again and again. - The signal-to-noise ration on plone-user means most core developers don't read it anymore (informal poll) - On a mailing list, it's hard to know whether the person answering your question knows what he's talking about and whether it's a good answer or a bad one - People who work other/overlapping systems will never stumble upon our product - they don't frequent plone.org or the Nabble GUI Stackoverflow as a support mechanism solves all this. In a lot of communities, it has completely taken over as the support channel. It's easier for core developers to follow (with RSS). The quality of questions/answers is generally higher, since you can upvote/downvote and edit questions and answers. The reputation management system means good answers rise up and people who know what they're doing are more prominent. It's early days still, but so far I find Stackoverflow much more enjoyable than plone-user to work with. I'd never have it replace the *discussion* part of our community (the other lists), but for informal support (which is what plone-user is for), mailing lists don't address the needs of the users very well. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Derek Broughton-3 |
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2011/3/3 Martin Aspeli <[hidden email]> -- 2011/3/3 Roché Compaan <[hidden email]>: I understand the _value_ of stackoverflow, but it's _not_ purely about providing community support. Jon stated right there that "we'll think about killing off plone-users". The plone-user mailing list is not great for that because: No, it's not. I used it for years, my colleague is still using it to read plone-users. It's way better (imo) than following an RSS feed. - A lot of people don't want a hundred emails a day from plone-user And they don't need it. As witnessed by this email - as long as you can post, you will get replies to _your_ message. I hate that too - I'm subscribed to the list via newsgroups (in fact, I'm not 100% sure this will even post to the list), and I really don't want you all CC'ing me, but that's another issue. If that's really the problem, the fix is to make it much easier for a user to subscribe to plone-users without getting all the emails rather than to try to do all support through another medium. - We push people to Nabble for signup so they can choose to use a TTW I've never seen a "push" to Nabble. But if its so difficult, don't use it. Google works fine. - People don't search the archives (which anyway is awkward), so we That will continue to happen. You think people will search StackOverflow? It's not difficult to search the archives: Google (I don't even _know_ where the archives are, but I find my answers from this list all the time) - but people are lazy, and they won't use Stackoverflow or Google anymore than they search on Nabble. Instead, they'll just repeat the question. - The signal-to-noise ration on plone-user means most core developers But you're going to studiously follow StackOverflow? That's relatively easy now, when there are so few questions tagged as "plone". Even so, last time I looked there were questions tagged as Plone3 or Plone4, but not Plone. Already, it becomes more difficult for the knowledgeable people to know there are questions that need an answer. Anyway, the people who should be answering questions are not necessarily the same as "core developers".. I'm perfectly happy to help out with the questions while you guys keep making Plone better. - On a mailing list, it's hard to know whether the person answering Agreed - that's what makes SO useful to _me_. I think you're kidding yourself if it matters to the users who want to get an answer from Plone-users, but don't want to read anybody else's posts. They'll take the first answer they see on SO, and if it mostly works, they'll never go back. They won't care about the source of the answer. - People who work other/overlapping systems will never stumble upon Google... How do I know as much as I do about Django (which I've never used)? It keeps coming up in searches for Plone problems.
No, it solves some issues, it creates whole new ones. It's never a good idea to let yourself believe that any piece of software (except, of course, Plone!) will sove all your problems. The one that really worries me is that knowledgeable people will NOT see the questions. If a user can't even find basic answers via Google, you can't imagine they can tag a question correctly to get it seen on StackOverflow. If you're prepared to ditch the users who can't ask adequate questions, then you're not improving service, but you _will_ improve the SNR. derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Balazs Ree-2 |
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On 2011-03-03 22:16:26 +0100, Derek Broughton said:
> 2011/3/3 Martin Aspeli <[hidden email]> > 2011/3/3 Roché Compaan > <[hidden email]>: > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, derek > <[hidden email]> wrote: > - A lot of people don't want a hundred emails a day from plone-user > in their inbox just to ask for some help. > > And they don't need it. As witnessed by this email - as long as you > can post, you will get replies to _your_ message. I hate that too - > I'm subscribed to the list via newsgroups (in fact, I'm not 100% sure > this will even post to the list), and I really don't want you all > CC'ing me, but that's another issue. If that's really the problem, the > fix is to make it much easier for a user to subscribe to plone-users > without getting all the emails rather than to try to do all support > through another medium. I also was always using a threaded nntp newsreader to follow the lists. In fact, I am not really able to follow any lists that do not have an nntp gateway (via gmane) and are readable "just via email". Otoh, I was surprised, that when I switched from linux to the mac, I could not find a decent nntp client that I could use, and when I asked many people to help me telling what nntp client they use on the mac, the answer was "ehhhrm, we are not using nntp". May be true that nntp is for the power users, and that not many people use nntp today, or know about the existence of usenet at all. Even though that imo, the threaded nature of News makes it a format easy to read and handy for discussions. So, I think the question is not if stackoverflow is userfriendly for the people who ask questions, (it probably is, friendly enough) but is it userfriendly for us power users (or, dinosaurs, if you want :). Will the people who need to provide the anwers, follow the questions on stackoverflow? To decide this question for myself, I subscribed to the following rss feed: http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/plone What I see, is that only the questions show up in the rss feed, but never the answers. This means, - if my observation is correct and I am not mistaken - that I will not be able to read the answers via the rss. It would be only possible by clicking "read more" and follow the web interface. My first reaction is that I will follow the questions but I probably won't do this extra click, unless I am ready to give a reply myself. Thus, I will seldom see any reply or get notified if there has been a reply at all. Which I find a pity, because on the current list, I often just join a conversation after a particular reply (like, the case in this thread), and many times, I also find valuable to read answers to a particular questions, which is a great way of learning how to solve particular problems. I also find it nice that if noone replies to a question, someone will take the lead after a while and replies. All this seems to be not easy or possible at all on stackoverflow. Tagging however can be used with a benefit on stackowerflow (like, tag a question with "plone" and something else). This is something we did not have on the mailing lists. I also have to add that I just subscribed to the feed, have not started using the service yet... -- Balazs Ree, Greenfinity, LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Martin Aspeli |
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Hi Derek,
On 3 March 2011 21:16, Derek Broughton <[hidden email]> wrote: >> This is purely about providing community support when people have >> questions. > > I understand the _value_ of stackoverflow, but it's _not_ purely about > providing community support. Jon stated right there that "we'll think about > killing off plone-users". What else is plone-users used for? >> The plone-user mailing list is not great for that because: >> >> - A lot of business users use Outlook. Mailing lists in Outlook is a >> travesty. > > No, it's not. I used it for years, my colleague is still using it to read > plone-users. It's way better (imo) than following an RSS feed. To each his own, I guess. I was comparing with things like Gmail. >> - A lot of people don't want a hundred emails a day from plone-user >> in their inbox just to ask for some help. > > And they don't need it. As witnessed by this email - as long as you can > post, you will get replies to _your_ message. I hate that too - I'm > subscribed to the list via newsgroups (in fact, I'm not 100% sure this will > even post to the list), and I really don't want you all CC'ing me, but > that's another issue. If that's really the problem, the fix is to make it > much easier for a user to subscribe to plone-users without getting all the > emails rather than to try to do all support through another medium. I think the world has moved on quite a bit. I work a lot with business users who evaluate, trial and end up using (and sometimes developing with) systems like Plone. A mailing list is a really big barrier to them. Having to sign up to a list and understand what amount of content they receive is problem. Plus the fact that the interaction point is their mailbox, whilst the existing content is elsewhere (archives), until they've been subscribed for a long time. Newsgroups are even more obscure. Almost no-one knows what they are. Like it or not, people these days search the web for help, and expect to use web-based solutions. Stackoverflow is *huge* for the type of Q&A that people use plone-users for. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but it's pretty much won the battle for the canonical location for technical/developer Q&A. >> - We push people to Nabble for signup so they can choose to use a TTW >> interface. The Nabble signup process is insanely convoluted (and this >> can't be fixed, since it's really just fronting mailman). We lose a >> lot of people this way. > > I've never seen a "push" to Nabble. But if its so difficult, don't use it. > Google works fine. plone.org/support used to send people to Nabble for signup. For people that come to plone.org and click "support", being sent to Mailman or Nabble is a big turn-off. People with casual questions aren't going to sign up to a mailing list just to ask. And those people are *already* on Stackoverflow, probably, where they know how to get help. >> - People don't search the archives (which anyway is awkward), so we >> get the same questions asked again and again. > > That will continue to happen. You think people will search StackOverflow? > It's not difficult to search the archives: Google (I don't even _know_ where > the archives are, but I find my answers from this list all the time) - but > people are lazy, and they won't use Stackoverflow or Google anymore than > they search on Nabble. Instead, they'll just repeat the question. When you post to Stackoverflow, it searches for you, and shows you similar questions before you're allowed to post. Plus, the community can edit, merge and vote up/down posts so that the best knowledge rises to the top for people who search for help (which more people do through a standard "top right hand side" search box than through something as obtuse as https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users. >> - The signal-to-noise ration on plone-user means most core developers >> don't read it anymore (informal poll) > > But you're going to studiously follow StackOverflow? That's relatively easy > now, when there are so few questions tagged as "plone". Even so, last time > I looked there were questions tagged as Plone3 or Plone4, but not Plone. Yes, which happened because we weren't taking control. At least now the 'plone' tag should start getting more important. But of course, the search will find the other content too. > Already, it becomes more difficult for the knowledgeable people to know > there are questions that need an answer. I find it easier, at least, because I get the RSS feed of new questions in my Google Reader. > Anyway, the people who should be > answering questions are not necessarily the same as "core developers".. I'm > perfectly happy to help out with the questions while you guys keep making > Plone better. Yes, it's already in my Google Reader RSS feed. If you want to give back to Plone and help, I think one way to do that would be to try to bring the help and conversation to where the people that need that help are. We risk becoming insular if we require anyone who wants to ask simple questions to go through our signup process and use tools that may be easy/familiar to us (and which we'll keep using for all *discussion* that happens on all the other lists!) but inconvenient to them. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who is evaluating a dozen CMSs and looking for a bit of help. Are they going to sign up to a dozen mailing lists, turn off mail delivery, ask their questions, etc, or are they going to ask all those questions in one or two web forums, where they can log in with their existing Google or Facebook or OpenID account? >> - On a mailing list, it's hard to know whether the person answering >> your question knows what he's talking about and whether it's a good >> answer or a bad one > > Agreed - that's what makes SO useful to _me_. I think you're kidding > yourself if it matters to the users who want to get an answer from > Plone-users, but don't want to read anybody else's posts. They'll take the > first answer they see on SO, and if it mostly works, they'll never go back. > They won't care about the source of the answer. I think if they get an answer that's down-voted, they'll know the answer is probably crap. And vice-a-versa for up-voted answers. > No, it solves some issues, it creates whole new ones. It's never a good idea > to let yourself believe that any piece of software (except, of course, > Plone!) will sove all your problems. The one that really worries me is > that knowledgeable people will NOT see the questions. If a user can't even > find basic answers via Google, you can't imagine they can tag a question > correctly to get it seen on StackOverflow. If you're prepared to ditch the > users who can't ask adequate questions, then you're not improving service, > but you _will_ improve the SNR. Why don't we let the experiment run for a bit before we decide it's dead, at least? Here's an anecdote: I've just helped a relatively inexperienced team through a complex Java implementation project. We coined a term: SODD - StackOverflow Driven Development. Whenever we were stuck, we'd tend to Google the question. Invariably, we got some answers on SO and some on mailing list archives and some in blogs. Almost always, we got the best answer out of SO. After a while, we just went straight there and searched, and when we couldn't find an answer, we asked. It worked very well. If we'd have had to sign up to the half dozen relevant mailing lists (we were using a variety of technologies), decide which ones to search/post to, interact with them through something like Nabble or Outlook, I doubt we would've been as effective. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Martin Aspeli |
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Hi Balazs,
On 3 March 2011 22:07, Balazs Ree <[hidden email]> wrote: > What I see, is that only the questions show up in the rss feed, but > never the answers. This means, - if my observation is correct and I am > not mistaken - that I will not be able to read the answers via the rss. > It would be only possible by clicking "read more" and follow the web > interface. My first reaction is that I will follow the questions but I > probably won't do this extra click, unless I am ready to give a reply > myself. Thus, I will seldom see any reply or get notified if there has > been a reply at all. Right - it's a somewhat different use case. Mailing lists are great for discussion (and this is a discussion - we wouldn't have this debate on StackOverflow!). StackOverflow is great for Q&A. The point of subscribing to the RSS feed is that if you know the answer, you'll hopefully answer. If you're looking for an answer, you'll either search or post a question (which involves a search for existing answers). And you're more likely then to find an old answer if it's still valid. And you can use up/down-voting to indicate whether the answer is (still) good, thus improving the knowledge base for everyone. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Carol Siddall |
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If anyone is interested...
The SQL Anywhere community hated stackoverflow. They decided that stackexchange was considerably better. Then they decided they had to move to a company-hosted space with it and have been working very hard to import all the history from stackexchange. I personally like that you can get your own space at stackexchange. I'd much rather go to plone.blahblahblah.something than go to a place where all the users had better take the time to appropriately tag their posts or they'll get lost in the grand scheme of things. But that's me. If you're trying to have your posts and your product show up (free advertising) when frustrated, irritated people are looking for an answer to something completely unrelated, you have no choice but to disagree with my petty preferences :) The following blog post starts out talking a lot about the setup, but if you skim over that, you'll get some relevant commentary about how people used their stackexchange setup right from the get-go. I think this commentary is relevant to those of us who are used to email (like myself) and has some interesting commentary about the stackoverflow community and voting, which may or may not still be relevant over a year later. http://sqlanywhere.blogspot.com/2009/11/sqla-one-week-later.html Here's the SQL Anywhere stackexchange site and their new beta company-hosted space, for the morbidly interested. http://sqla.stackexchange.com/ http://sqlanywhere-forum.sybase.com/ I have to admit, I'm an email person. But that's because I like to keep the archive local for when I need it. You'll probably never actually hear from me again. -carol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Derek Broughton-3 |
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On Mar 3, 8:40 pm, Carol Siddall <[hidden email]> wrote: > If anyone is interested... > > The SQL Anywhere community hated stackoverflow. They decided that > stackexchange was considerably better. Weird - since StackExchange _is_ StackOverflow. I mean, I'm sure there are some differences, but it's the same people, same software, different URLs. > I have to admit, I'm an email person. But that's because I like to keep > the archive local for when I need it. You'll probably never actually > hear from me again. That, unfortunately, is what I fear will happen with StackOverflow - a lot of one-time interactions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Derek Broughton-3 |
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In reply to this post by Martin Aspeli
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Martin Aspeli <[hidden email]> wrote: Personally I rely on PPDD: /Professional Plone Development/ development. :-)Hi Derek, So, you agree? This IS about killing plone-users. >> The plone-user mailing list is not great for that because: >> >> - A lot of business users use Outlook. Mailing lists in Outlook is a >> travesty. > > No, it's not. I used it for years, my colleague is still using it to read > plone-users. It's way better (imo) than following an RSS feed. To each his own, I guess. I was comparing with things like Gmail. These days I practically _live_ on Gmail. Nevertheless, Outlook - and any decent offline mail reader - handles mailing lists better than that. I can't ignore a thread in Gmail. I think the world has moved on quite a bit. I work a lot with business I understand that - I was just pointing out that IF that was the problem, it's solvable by making the signup process simpler. I don't believe that is really the problem, though. Like it or not, people these days search the web for help, and expect I agree - and I stated right off the top that I _like_ StackOverflow. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but it's pretty much won the OK. I wasn't aware that anybody besides the poster could actually modify the questions. So I've been back to SO and done my first good deed by retagging a Plone3 question (which wasn't even Plone3 specific) to "plone". rises to the top for people who search for help (which more people do Exactly - but I've been doing that via Google for over a decade. Only a real geek would have even got to sf.net.
It hasn't, previously. I've been using StackOverflow for a year. I have _not_ been using it for Plone because I could find no useful information except _very_ occasionally when something showed in a Google search. Having successfully retagged a question as "plone", I begin to see the value. However, you still won't see the questions that people can't tag correctly unless people do what I've done and dig them up and retag them. > Already, it becomes more difficult for the knowledgeable people to know > there are questions that need an answer. I find it easier, at least, because I get the RSS feed of new I think that most users won't stick around long enough to see if an answer is voted down. Especially since they can't vote themselves, unless they're prepared to stick around quite a while.
Please don't get me wrong - as I said, I like SO. What's distressing to me is the apparent willingness of people like you and Jon to kill _this_ medium. Here's an anecdote: I've just helped a relatively inexperienced team -- derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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David Glick (GW) |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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On 3/3/11 10:05 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Please don't get me wrong - as I said, I like SO. What's distressing > to me is the apparent willingness of people like you and Jon to kill > _this_ medium. I haven't heard anybody say they're ready to kill plone-users. I've heard people say that they're ready to try Stack Overflow as an experiment, and that we should explore having plone-users may change or go away *if* Stack Overflow fulfills the same goal better. Given the length of this thread, I don't think that's a foregone conclusion by any means. I doubt we can judge that till we've been promoting Stack Overflow for a month or two. ---------- David Glick Web Developer [hidden email] 206.286.1235x32 Groundwire: You Are Connected http://groundwire.org Online tools and strategies for the environmental movement. Sign up for Groundwire News! http://groundwire.org/email-capture ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM, David Glick <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 3/3/11 10:05 PM, Derek Broughton wrote: >> Please don't get me wrong - as I said, I like SO. What's distressing >> to me is the apparent willingness of people like you and Jon to kill >> _this_ medium. > I haven't heard anybody say they're ready to kill plone-users. I've > heard people say that they're ready to try Stack Overflow as an > experiment, and that we should explore having plone-users may change or > go away *if* Stack Overflow fulfills the same goal better. Given the > length of this thread, I don't think that's a foregone conclusion by any > means. I doubt we can judge that till we've been promoting Stack > Overflow for a month or two. Waaay to much is being read into an off-the-cuff remark. I'm not ready to "kill" plone-users, and I don't think anyone else is yet either. We're just trying an experiment (which was not my idea, but one I'm personally pretty excited to see happening) to see whether SO works well for us. If it does, great, we'll figure out what that means for how to refactor Plone's support spaces. If SO doesn't work for us, then we won't make any changes. Or we'll come up with different experiments. Regardless, there will be a lot more conversation before any final changes get made. If there's not an obvious working consensus, I'd personally be in favor of some sort of community poll or advisory vote. I do think we need to acknowledge, as Martin has eloquently pointed out, that while the status quo has some good points, it also has some real pain points for the inexperienced. Thus, I think open-minded experimentation is very worthwhile. :jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Balazs Ree-2 |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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On 2011-03-04 00:28:44 +0100, Martin Aspeli said:
> > Here's an anecdote: I've just helped a relatively inexperienced team > through a complex Java implementation project. We coined a term: SODD > - StackOverflow Driven Development. Whenever we were stuck, we'd tend > to Google the question. Invariably, we got some answers on SO and some > on mailing list archives and some in blogs. Almost always, we got the > best answer out of SO. After a while, we just went straight there and > searched, and when we couldn't find an answer, we asked. It worked > very well. If we'd have had to sign up to the half dozen relevant > mailing lists (we were using a variety of technologies), decide which > ones to search/post to, interact with them through something like > Nabble or Outlook, I doubt we would've been as effective. > Although the following points can be questioned and discussed on their own, I firmly believe that - we will want to move towards a web-based tool - instead of rolling our own solution, we want to use something that exists, has proven its merits, and already used by a large group of people So the real question is imo, not mailinglist versus stackoverflow. The real question is, what other web-based solution exists out there, that satisfies our goal? Then we could compare the alternatives with stackoverflow, and choose the best tool currently available. This is the kind of decision that is always difficult for Plone, because we will want to make a community decision about the switch. Many times this decision is not made because we cannot make the "best decision", and we never know what better alternative may pop up at some point. However, nothing is perfect at any given point of time. Also, tools will loose popularity or go away and new, better tools will eventually pop up. So, even when we make a switch, we are not bound to use the same solution for ever. If the situation changes, and something better arrives, we need to be flexible, and be ready to adopt. So as Martin said, let's gather some experience with stackoverflow. Also, let's keep our eyes open: if there are other tools available to consider, let's consider them too in an upcoming decision. -- Balazs Ree, Greenfinity, LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Martin Aspeli |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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In reply to this post by David Glick (GW)
On 4 March 2011 03:14, David Glick <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 3/3/11 10:05 PM, Derek Broughton wrote: >> >> Please don't get me wrong - as I said, I like SO. What's distressing to >> me is the apparent willingness of people like you and Jon to kill _this_ >> medium. > > I haven't heard anybody say they're ready to kill plone-users. I've heard > people say that they're ready to try Stack Overflow as an experiment, and > that we should explore having plone-users may change or go away *if* Stack > Overflow fulfills the same goal better. Given the length of this thread, I > don't think that's a foregone conclusion by any means. I doubt we can judge > that till we've been promoting Stack Overflow for a month or two. David is correct - I never meant to imply otherwise. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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Dieter Maurer |
Re: How has stackoverflow taken off?
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Martin Aspeli wrote at 2011-3-3 20:25 +0000:
> ... >Stackoverflow ... >It's >easier for core developers to follow (with RSS). I find my email "inbox" rather convenient to multiplex messages from different channels. I am sure I will forget to check dozens of RSS feeds regularly. -- Dieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Plone-Users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-users |
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