From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs stackexchange beta site Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:12:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87y4tf9xoi.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <874mw5q15w.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a95wy73q.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sijnbfbn.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411157725 1704 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2014 20:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:15:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 22:15:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XV4aK-0005bo-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV4aK-0007FY-2x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:15:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 62 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fB24ZQgP59fMELkTa7V3x8BEmvc= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207775 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100048 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >>> Exactly. Even today one has to follow the emacs >>> tag on stackexchange to get notified of emacs >>> questions on the different sites (SO, Tex, SU, >>> etc.): >> >> So that will be easier when every thing will be on >> one site. > > What gave you the idea that everything concerning > Emacs will be on one site? Everything on the SX sites that is about Emacs or mostly about Emacs will be moved to that site - at least new questions. But that's just small potatoes. The big potato is all the people (old and new SX users) that will know about the Emacs SX site: those will go there first hand and post their Q&As. If you want an easy way to monitor Emacs activity on the SX sites, how can you not want one site with Emacs-only material? Isn't that the easiest way by far? > Nothing prevents you from adding those tags today. > See Emacs-specific tags such as `font-lock', for > example. In principle yes but in reality it will be much more specific and in-depths, I can't imagine otherwise. There is a TeX site. TeX is programming, so why not use SE? A specific site makes for more specific, more detailed, more of everything. It just makes for deeper and broader drilling. > Migration of questions across sites is manual. Just > more bother. Please consider signing up to help > maintain and manage the overhead you're endorsing. Of course it is manual - you think some algorithm should do that? The maintainers are hopefully enthusiastic about their site which is the only reason to do it. I'm not enthusiastic so I'll pass, but I can definitely see the advantages of the project. Moving questions is a very small detail in this issue (and it doesn't involve much overhead either). > And your envisioned migration scenario applies only > for questions unrelated to anything else, besides > Emacs, on the given site. Other questions tagged > Emacs might well be more relevant right where they > are. That's one reason migration is manual. So they stay. What's the problem? Again, this is a small detail. Most questions on the Emacs SX site will not be moved there - they will be posted there by people who know what they are doing! -- underground experts united