Re: [DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-06 Thread Andrew Garcia
sweet! On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM James Fredley wrote: > After reviewing > https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/, the > decline at StackOverflow is rapid and nearly total/fatal. > > Based on this we should guide users to post questions in the users mailing > list

Re: [DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-06 Thread James Fredley
After reviewing https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/, the decline at StackOverflow is rapid and nearly total/fatal. Based on this we should guide users to post questions in the users mailing list. GitHub discussions can be an alternative, since it is replicated to

Re: [DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-06 Thread Andrew Garcia
Gianluca, Answer according to ChatGPT, they tried to block at first.. [image: Screenshot 2025-06-06 at 8.24.36 AM.png] I think the answer will be a "yes, and..". We will definitely need the structured documentation as you noted, but we also need to position as much troubleshooting discourse to be

Re: [DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-06 Thread Gianluca Sartori
Hi Andrew, I am not sure if ChatGPT and the like are happier with issue tracking or Q&A data rather than structured documentation. I have used stack overflow a lot for the same reason I now use ChatGPT: to quickly find solutions or options instead of reading the books :). Looking at the sources

Re: [DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-05 Thread Andrew Garcia
I believe I recall hearing that the content of the mailing list is crawlable bots yes? In this case that’s a strong value add to the community as I believe it’s on our best interest that as much of the troubleshooting conversations, and answers, are indexable by services like ChatGPT and Claude.

[DISCUSS] Retiring Stack Overflow for Grails Questions

2025-06-05 Thread James Daugherty
Hi Everyone, In this past week's developer meeting, we discussed the decline of stackoverflow ( https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/). The ASF provides us a users mailing list and we would like to transition grails questions to the mailing list. We intend to keep sla