I've also noticed that most Pulsar-related questions on StackOverflow are tagged as [apache-pulsar] and sometimes also [pulsar]. Do we want to recommend one tag over the other?
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:01 PM Neng Lu <nl...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 > > On 2021/07/23 16:48:42 Aaron Williams wrote: > > Hello Apache Pulsar Community, > > > > Many of us community members were having a conversation about Slack and > how > > it is not working very well as a tool to answer questions from the wider > > community and we should try to push more of the questions to Stack > > Overflow. > > > > We would like to suggest- > > > > 1. > > > > Add a link to stack overflow to the contact page of the website: > > https://pulsar.apache.org/en/contact/ > > 2. > > > > Add text to the webpage stating that we recommend that if you have a > > technical question, please ask it on Stack Overflow > > 3. > > > > On Slack, we encourage them to post their question to Stack Overflow > > > > > > Reasons: > > > > - > > > > We are on the free version of Slack and thus all questions/answers > > before the middle of June are lost (10k messages max). > > - > > > > We answer the same question over and over. > > - > > > > We want to make it easier for our community to find the answers. > > - > > > > Developers expect answers to be on Stack Overflow > > - > > > > It is easier to copy and paste an error message into Google and if it > > has been posted to Stack Overflow, then the questioner will find the > answer > > quickly. > > - > > > > Slack is not searchable by Google, plus we won’t lose the > > question/answer after 5 weeks > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Aaron Williams > > >
