[Rock-dev] rock-users vs robotics.stackexchange.com

[Jakob Schwendner]

> 	I just set up a first question and added a rock tag. (I don't have tag
> editing rights, so we'll have to wait for the description until its reviewed)
> 	http://robotics.stackexchange.com/q/2882/127
> 
> 	There is a feature to send questions for a specific tag to an email
> address. We could set it up to send to rock-users. Its a good way to get
> notified as well. Also, not all questions are fit for the stackexchange format,
> and they can sometimes be quite strict about deleting question. For this
> reason, I would vote to have both. By linking them through the notification
> feature I think it could work.
> 
> I would really not forward SE questions to the ML, as one cannot answer the
> question by answering the emails. So, in the end it is noise on the ML and
> does not benefit the SE discussions.
To me this would be similar to the issue tracking mails we get from track. I like those, and don't consider them noise.

> I would prefer having either SE or the ML and only add the other one if there
> indeed is a problem. If there are open-ended discussions, maybe we could
> still make them on rock-dev (as long as there is not too many of them ...)
rock-dev should imho stay as it is. I thought the discussion was on rock-users.
Announcements from sx would also only go to rock-users.

> From a "strategic" point of view, SE would give some visibility to rock, so I
> would like to favor it.
I agree. But I don't see why having rock-users as some sort of announce list would harm that point. 
It also allows to ask questions that don't fit the sx format, and have discussions, which is also not allowed on sx.

I don't see a harm in using both, If we see it creates problems, we can always close rock-users and tell everyone to only use sx.

Cheers,

Jakob