Re: Stackexchange community for GNOME/GTK+

[liberforce freeside fr]

Hi Sri,

Le 2017-05-10 06:51, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit :
> I'm creating a stackexchange community for the GNOME platform and the 
> GTK+
> toolkit.  I'm looking for help in subscribing to the forum and of 
> course
> some people who would be willing to answer questions.  We have three 
> days
> to build 5 followers and build about 5-10 questions that can be 
> answered.
> After that to get to the next phase, we will need 50 followers and 40 
> good
> questionsI have some folks who are also willing to monitor and answer
> questions.
>
> https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/109823/gtk-and-gnome?referrer=jPuOAsszR3FdMlqW5m8Y-A2
>
> WHY:  We need to have a search engine index-able library of knowledge 
> on
> our platform.  Modern programmers today frequently use stackexchange 
> and
> google to ask questions and to look for answers for questions.
>
> Today, questions are answered in mailing lists and irc.  Neither one 
> are
> search engine friendly and common questions are often repeated and 
> their
> answers not shared.  Let's build a persistent body of knowledge that 
> people
> can easily find and lower the bar of entry in writing applications in 
> GNOME
> or GTK+.

while I definitely agree stackexchange could be an answer to the 
frequently
asked questions problem, putting the GTK+ and GNOME together in there 
bothers
me a bit.

GTK+ already has many questions and answers on stackoverflow. Don't you
think adding a new communication channel would add a bit of confusion on
where to ask questions? I think it would also hide GTK+ away to people 
asking
more generic questions on UI toolkits, or for GTK+ on platforms other 
than
Linux, when Qt and wxWidgets for example are on stackoverflow and don't 
have
their own stackexchange.

Cheers,
--
Luis