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Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum
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Ted Lemon |
Subject: |
Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:21:31 -0500 |
On Dec 22, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's actually been discussed on meta - consensus is that people should
> actually come over here for help. :-)
Yeah, so, this is intensely frustrating for anybody who tries to google for
help with lilypond, because there are several dozen archives of the lilypond
mailing list, each slightly different, so that if you do virtually any google
search for help with lilypond, it returns a page with about a dozen identical
copies of the same wrong answer, a couple of random document pages for
different versions of the document that don't tell you what you need to know,
and nothing whatsoever useful.
So essentially, when you give this as the answer to the question "why not use
stack overflow," what you are really saying is "don't google for help with
Lilypond. Instead, just ask your question."
That's sort of a reasonable thing to say: whenever I ask a question on the
mailing list, some helpful person (or likely two) come back with an answer.
But this isn't an answer that scales: if lilypond were to get more popular, at
some point this would no longer work, and it seems to me that the difficulty of
getting answers out of google is an impediment to lilypond's popularity.
It just astonishes me that when I google for something like "how to shrink a
staff in lilypond" I can't find any useful answer (although I find dozens of
copies of the same utterly absurd answer: just shrink the notes, but keep the
staff the same size!), and I think part of that is the way lilypond questions
are asked and answered.
- Guitar charts with custom chord names/grids, Rob Torop, 2014/12/22
- Re: Guitar charts with custom chord names/grids, Thomas Morley, 2014/12/22
- Re: Guitar charts with custom chord names/grids, Thomas Morley, 2014/12/22
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Urs Liska, 2014/12/22
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Garrett Fitzgerald, 2014/12/22
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum,
Ted Lemon <=
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Federico Bruni, 2014/12/22
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Christopher R. Maden, 2014/12/22
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Johan Vromans, 2014/12/23
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Federico Bruni, 2014/12/23
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Helge Kruse, 2014/12/23
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Johan Vromans, 2014/12/23
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Helge Kruse, 2014/12/24
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Rob Torop, 2014/12/24
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Shane Brandes, 2014/12/24
- Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum, Federico Bruni, 2014/12/23