Re: stack exchange follow up

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com> wrote:
> What's the benefit of using a more specific community over just the tag
> in stackoverflow? What do other libraries do?

I think in this case you're creating a specific community that people
can join instead of just a regular tag.  Might be easier to manage
instead of searching on tags all the time since you are centralizing
the questions into a specific bucket.  That said, soemtimes the tag is
more interesting since a question can bridge across different tags.  A
question on gobject might span across multiple tags.

I think it might be interesting to have our own community and see how
it works out.  Since we can easily link to it and get people to go
there for their Q&A.

sri

> On 08/16/2014 02:10 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> > > Hey, I decided to spend a little bit of time and look at stack
> > > exchange in order to help support a better development community.  The
> > > relevant information is here:
> > >
> > > http://stackoverflow.com/help/product-support
> > >
> > > There is already a gtk+ tag already.  So I'm not sure what else needs
> > > to be done.  Questions are getting answered from what I can tell.  So
> > > there is a community here already, but perhaps we can make it better
> > > and promote it more?
> >
> > So it looks like you can create a specific community around GTK+.
> > Here is the place to start:
> >
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/
> >
> > You get people to sign off on the site, and then get a following.  If
> > you gain enough it gets proposed under the 'beta' heading and then
> > from there it can become a real site.  I think this is really a great
> > process.
> >
> > I would like to get agreement from everyone (both engagement,
> > documentation, and developers) so that I can go forward.  Please read
> > the FAQ first:
> >
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
> >
> > Once, we at least get it in staging we will need to get a lot of
> > people to sign up on it.  Monitoring is still going to be a challenge,
> > but I'll figure that out later.
> >
> > sri
> >
> > > sri
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