[Numpy-discussion] Meta: help, devel and stackoverflow

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

On 06/30/2012 07:31 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jason Grout
> <jason-sage at creativetrax.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious: do you mean using stackexchange.com itself, or using
>> http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/ specifically?
>
> I meant the latter, which seems like it would be the best suited for
> the topic of this discussion.  I don't use the site myself yet (other
> than, as Matthew mentions, stumbling on it via googling for a
> question), but I'm growing more interested...

It is rumored that a problem with some stackexchange sites is the host 
of nay-sayers saying that a question doesn't belong here but in this 
other silo instead, instead of just letting a culture develop (though my 
only interface to stack*.com is Google too so I don't really know).

If one was to actively push people to that site instead of 
numpy-discussion, one should make sure that almost any discussion about 
scientific Python is welcome there (at least anything that does "import 
numpy" at some point). Perhaps have that discussion on 
meta.scicomp.stackexchange.com beforehand.

Dag