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Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Hi,
Do developers and power users (which are famous on the mailing list(s))
support the `solr` tag on stackoverflow.com? There's no definite answer,
I know, but someone might do an educated guess.
-Kalle
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
On 10 May 2017 at 11:50, Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de> wrote:
> Would you (all) consider it useful to cross-post a SO question on this
> list?
I think most of the times, it would be more efficient to post
Solr-only questions on this mailing list in the first place. But
people who find SO somehow do not find the User Group list. I try to
drive them to the list when appropriate.
Importantly, SO also has a lot of Solr client questions that this list
does not specialize in (e.g. ruby/python-framework level question).
They probably will not get much answers here, but they also don't have
their own dedicated community either. So, SO is where they go.
I guess I could say that I answer SO questions because they are asked
there (and I focus the newbies) not because I think SO has caught on
as a good Solr forum.
Regards,
Alex.
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Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de>.
Hi,
Am 10.05.2017 um 15:01 schrieb Shawn Heisey:
> I don't seek out questions on SO, but if one happens to come my way that
> I can answer, there's a good chance I will post. Most of the time I see
> SO posts via some other medium, though -- like this list or the #solr
> IRC channel. That kind of exposure makes it a little bit less likely
> that I will respond on SO.
Would you (all) consider it useful to cross-post a SO question on this
list? And if yes to leave it at the URL in order to profit from the
editing features of a Q&A (which is the reason they exist in the first
place and - more controversially - deprecate mailing lists to a large
extent - regardless of the still large popularity based on habits)?
-Kalle
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
Just FYI.
The average number of Solr answers on SO is probably less than one.
Whether they get accepted even when answered is a different issue.
The questions do seem to have a larger back-and-forth (in comments)
than other topics though. That's something Mailing List is much better
for.
Finally, you can have SO Solr questions coming into your inbox. Just
subscribe to the tag, as explained in
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254318/how-to-subscribe-to-tags
Regards,
Alex.
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On 10 May 2017 at 12:18, Walter Underwood <wu...@wunderwood.org> wrote:
> Sure, here is an example. The accepted answer doesn’t really answer the question. Mine finally got an equal number of votes, but is not accepted. Essentially, this is voting on physics, which is not a good way to find engineering solutions.
>
> https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/337/why-do-concurrent-fm-signals-not-mix-together/427 <https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/337/why-do-concurrent-fm-signals-not-mix-together/427>
>
> Also, the back and forth to clarify the question is harder to do at Stack Overflow.
>
> Finally, I only visit forum sites when I absolutely have to. I've had all the discussions coming to one place since the early 1980’s, with Usenet. Visiting one site per topic is a crazy waste of time.
>
> I maintained the internal forums and Notesfiles software at HP for about ten years (before the WWW), so I’m pretty aware of discussions that don’t work right.
>
> wunder
> Walter Underwood
> wunder@wunderwood.org
> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>
>
>> On May 10, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 10.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Walter Underwood:
>>> I have contributed some answers in the amateur radio group. Stack Overflow has a bad
>>> tendency to get stuck on the earliest “might be right” answer, even if it is wrong. Very
>>> frustrating. This happens a lot with questions about antennas.
>> I can imagine this, but it's hard to follow without an example - not
>> necessary because there's no need to discuss the ups and downs of
>> stackexchange (!= stackoverflow) sites. If a Q&A frustates you - and
>> you're active on mailing lists - then you must have stubled over a lot
>> of pretty rare issues ;)
>>
>> -Kalle
>>
>
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Walter Underwood <wu...@wunderwood.org>.
Sure, here is an example. The accepted answer doesn’t really answer the question. Mine finally got an equal number of votes, but is not accepted. Essentially, this is voting on physics, which is not a good way to find engineering solutions.
https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/337/why-do-concurrent-fm-signals-not-mix-together/427 <https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/337/why-do-concurrent-fm-signals-not-mix-together/427>
Also, the back and forth to clarify the question is harder to do at Stack Overflow.
Finally, I only visit forum sites when I absolutely have to. I've had all the discussions coming to one place since the early 1980’s, with Usenet. Visiting one site per topic is a crazy waste of time.
I maintained the internal forums and Notesfiles software at HP for about ten years (before the WWW), so I’m pretty aware of discussions that don’t work right.
wunder
Walter Underwood
wunder@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
> On May 10, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 10.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Walter Underwood:
>> I have contributed some answers in the amateur radio group. Stack Overflow has a bad
>> tendency to get stuck on the earliest “might be right” answer, even if it is wrong. Very
>> frustrating. This happens a lot with questions about antennas.
> I can imagine this, but it's hard to follow without an example - not
> necessary because there's no need to discuss the ups and downs of
> stackexchange (!= stackoverflow) sites. If a Q&A frustates you - and
> you're active on mailing lists - then you must have stubled over a lot
> of pretty rare issues ;)
>
> -Kalle
>
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de>.
Hi,
Am 10.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Walter Underwood:
> I have contributed some answers in the amateur radio group. Stack Overflow has a bad
> tendency to get stuck on the earliest “might be right” answer, even if it is wrong. Very
> frustrating. This happens a lot with questions about antennas.
I can imagine this, but it's hard to follow without an example - not
necessary because there's no need to discuss the ups and downs of
stackexchange (!= stackoverflow) sites. If a Q&A frustates you - and
you're active on mailing lists - then you must have stubled over a lot
of pretty rare issues ;)
-Kalle
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Walter Underwood <wu...@wunderwood.org>.
I just checked, and it has been 3.5 years since I’ve answered anything about solr on Stack Overflow.
It’s been 30 minutes since I answered something here.
I have contributed some answers in the amateur radio group. Stack Overflow has a bad
tendency to get stuck on the earliest “might be right” answer, even if it is wrong. Very
frustrating. This happens a lot with questions about antennas.
wunder
Walter Underwood
wunder@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
> On May 10, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Personally I have all I can do to keep up with this list and the dev
> list and, you know, do my day job ;)
>
> I've seen quite a few references to SO for Solr questions, and the
> times I've perused them the answers I've been impressed. Just don't
> have time.
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Shawn Heisey <ap...@elyograg.org> wrote:
>> On 5/10/2017 6:31 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
>>> Do developers and power users (which are famous on the mailing
>>> list(s)) support the `solr` tag on stackoverflow.com? There's no
>>> definite answer, I know, but someone might do an educated guess.
>>
>> I don't seek out questions on SO, but if one happens to come my way that
>> I can answer, there's a good chance I will post. Most of the time I see
>> SO posts via some other medium, though -- like this list or the #solr
>> IRC channel. That kind of exposure makes it a little bit less likely
>> that I will respond on SO.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn
>>
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>.
Personally I have all I can do to keep up with this list and the dev
list and, you know, do my day job ;)
I've seen quite a few references to SO for Solr questions, and the
times I've perused them the answers I've been impressed. Just don't
have time.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Shawn Heisey <ap...@elyograg.org> wrote:
> On 5/10/2017 6:31 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
>> Do developers and power users (which are famous on the mailing
>> list(s)) support the `solr` tag on stackoverflow.com? There's no
>> definite answer, I know, but someone might do an educated guess.
>
> I don't seek out questions on SO, but if one happens to come my way that
> I can answer, there's a good chance I will post. Most of the time I see
> SO posts via some other medium, though -- like this list or the #solr
> IRC channel. That kind of exposure makes it a little bit less likely
> that I will respond on SO.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Shawn Heisey <ap...@elyograg.org>.
On 5/10/2017 6:31 AM, Karl-Philipp Richter wrote:
> Do developers and power users (which are famous on the mailing
> list(s)) support the `solr` tag on stackoverflow.com? There's no
> definite answer, I know, but someone might do an educated guess.
I don't seek out questions on SO, but if one happens to come my way that
I can answer, there's a good chance I will post. Most of the time I see
SO posts via some other medium, though -- like this list or the #solr
IRC channel. That kind of exposure makes it a little bit less likely
that I will respond on SO.
Thanks,
Shawn
Re: Do developers and power users support stackoverflow.com solr tag?
Posted by Alexandre Rafalovitch <ar...@gmail.com>.
I think I am the only person answering both SO Solr tag and Mailing
List questions comparatively frequently. Less now than before, but I
still track SO it by subscribing to the solr tag newsletter. There are
some other strong users answering SO tag, but I don't think they are
on the Mailing List. Or they are dark here.
As an unrelated but fun fact, the ATOM DIH example coming up in Solr
6.6 (instead of broken RSS example) populates the collection from that
same SO Solr tag. So, we may get more attention then.
Regards,
Alex.
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On 10 May 2017 at 08:31, Karl-Philipp Richter <kr...@posteo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> Do developers and power users (which are famous on the mailing list(s))
> support the `solr` tag on stackoverflow.com? There's no definite answer,
> I know, but someone might do an educated guess.
>
> -Kalle
>