Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pete R. Jemian" <[email protected]> · Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:23:28 -0600

Consider it as a value-added proposition.

Does the StackOverflow site offer better indexing?  Not sure.

Web Visibility? Not a bit. An additional repository of information

only dilutes the value of the tech-talk mailing list.

One thing StackOverflow add is to present, together, multiple answers to

the same question, with a voting scheme. The voting scheme is a

value-added component. Those unsure of which answer to try might have a

sense of priority.

Pete

On 11/18/2011 12:30 PM, Abraham Massry wrote:

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

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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