Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:25:48 -0600

Hi Abe,

On 2011-11-18 Abraham Massry wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for trying, but it looks like the EPICS community doesn't see the need 
for its own stack exchange site.  I considered the idea when stack exchange 
first launched, but I suspected then that there wouldn't be enough interest to 
sustain one, and I think the response here has shown that to be the case.

As far as I can see there have never been any questions about EPICS on the 
main stack overflow site, although there are probably a few people in this 
community who have used it.  I think we're just too small and have too few 
problems to sustain a separate Q&A forum like that.

Don't stop the ideas though, there are many ways that the community could 
improve its public face so I hope this experience wasn't too discouraging.

- Andrew
-- 
Optimization is the process of taking something that works and
replacing it with something that almost works, but costs less.
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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