Better PlayN question handling

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Michael Bayne

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Oct 24, 2011, 12:21:41 PM10/24/11
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We should put a link to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/playn

on the PlayN project page and direct people there to ask (and get
answers for) questions about PlayN, rather than to this mailing list.
This is a useful place to discuss new features or code reviews, but it
is a terrible place to troubleshoot problems with getting PlayN set up
or implementing basic game functionality.

The problem is that no one searches the mailing list archives before
posting a question that has been asked and answered numerous times
before, and the Google Groups interface (naturally) doesn't encourage
them to do so. On top of that, a given answer to a question ends up
hidden in a massive thread, and thus is hard to find.

Stack Overflow is specifically designed to overcome these problems and
serve as a great way to find existing answers and to obtain new ones.
We should take advantage of it.

-- m...@samskivert.com

Philip Rogers

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Oct 24, 2011, 12:24:13 PM10/24/11
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+1 and done :)

Michael Bayne

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Oct 24, 2011, 12:26:09 PM10/24/11
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Philip Rogers <p...@google.com> wrote:
> +1 and done :)

Thanks! Now I'll finally have and excuse to build up my Stack Overflow
reputation. :)

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Dorian Manning

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Oct 24, 2011, 2:08:55 PM10/24/11
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Very much agreed.
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