meta forum for ROS answers?

asked 2013-02-21 13:06:20 -0500

2062 ●24 ●47 ●55

Recent discussions on ros-users showed that ROS Answers is ... Hmm, let's say ... That there is room for improvement. :-)

For this reason there are "meta forums" for stack exchange Q&A's, where people are discussing the usage of the Q&A forum itself.

Example:

http://robotics.stackexchange.com/

http://meta.robotics.stackexchange.com/

In order to not spam the normal ROS-related Q&As with forum-related/AskBot-related questions, I'd like to suggest to implement a meta forum for ROS Answers.

What do you think?

PS: There is a related question on AskBot, but unfortunately no answer to it: http://askbot.org/en/question/6797/hosted-meta-site-linked-to-main-site/

edit retag flag offensive close merge delete

Comments

1

Hi, Marcus. Isn't ros-users mailing list is a some sort of "meta-site" already?

Boris ( 2013-02-21 16:39:11 -0500 )edit

Just found out, that we are making use of GitHub issues for answers.ros.org (see here). Altthough I like this approach, we should clearly state somewhere, which questions/problems should be asked where (answers.ros.org, ros-users, GitHub)!

bit-pirate ( 2013-02-27 12:38:50 -0500 )edit

add a comment

3

answered 2013-02-21 20:28:17 -0500

KruseT

7848 ●40 ●87 ●146

Recent dicussions on ros-users sho that ros-users is a satisfactory place to discuss such things. Adding more places just makes it harder to track dicussions. We can handle some small surplus of meta questions and discussions both here and on ros-users currently.

edit flag offensive delete link

Comments

1

Personally, I agree with your (and @Boris) point of view. However, there have also been comments about ros-users being "high bandwidth" and other comments indicating it being too lively for some. Hence, I decided to ask this questions here.

bit-pirate ( 2013-02-24 13:36:44 -0500 )edit

If more users agree with this point of view (i.e. upvotes/comments), we should clearly state somewhere, where users should ask questions and place request about ros answers, e.g. Get Involved page).

bit-pirate ( 2013-02-24 13:39:42 -0500 )edit

the answers.ros.org tag could serve as a meta tag

2ROS0 ( 2018-02-07 12:57:03 -0500 )edit

@2ROS0 FYI my answer.

130s ( 2018-02-07 13:12:22 -0500 )edit

add a comment

2

answered 2018-02-07 13:06:17 -0500

130s

10937 ●203 ●339 ●330 http://www.linkedin.co...

We have had a github repo ros-infrastructure/answers.ros.org for tracking meta issues for Answers website for awhile. I assume any improvement discussion can be done there as well.

edit flag offensive delete link

add a comment

meta forum for ROS answers?

Comments

2 Answers

Comments

Question Tools

Stats

Related questions

meta forum for ROS answers? edit

Comments

2 Answers

Comments

Question Tools

Stats

Related questions

meta forum for ROS answers?