Maybe we should add a big fat link to the ROS answers FAQ and to http://wiki.ros.org/Support at the top of the ROS answers page. I can imagine that many questions stay unanswered because they are bad written. Also, often new users comment on their own questions with the answer-function and not with the comment-function. Then the problem is that not much users look at questions that already have 2 or more answers and in the end the question stays unanswered. Benny Am 2014-09-05 5:11, schrieb Geoffrey Biggs: > Although the answers site has a tags system, perhaps we can put it to > work when a user posts a question? The site could do some processing > on the tags and, when it finds a particular tag, display a message to > the user and ask if they really want to post the question. For > example, if the user specifies the "moveit" tag, a message can be > displayed explaining where the primary source of MoveIt! help is, and > asking if the user still wants to post the question to answers.ros.org > [1]. > > Geoff > > On 5 September 2014 12:00, Dave Coleman > wrote: > >> Instead of hijacking Tully's 2014 Metrics Report thread I've renamed >> this thread to comment on David's question :-) >> >> This is just one aspect of the issue, but I see on answers.ros.org >> [1] there are a lot of questions about MoveIt!, many of which are >> unanswered. Although MoveIt! is a major component of ROS, there is >> a schism as to where questions are answered. MoveIt!'s main >> discussion area is the user mailing list [2], secondary is Github >> issues, but also there are the answers.ros.org [1] questions. >> Instructions for how to get MoveIt! support are here [3], but I >> understand why some users are confused.  >> >> I imagine there are similar divisions with projects like PCL and >> Gazebo. Perhaps we should do something to help users understand the >> scope of these various avenues of discussion. >> >> dave coleman >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:19 PM, David Lu!! >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for putting together the report, Tully.  >> >> One additional metric that has gone up over the past four years is >> the percentage of questions on answers.ros.org [1] that have gone >> unanswered. I've attached a graph with the numbers from the past >> reports. We've steadily grown from 13% in 2011 to 32% now.   >> >> I'd be interested in seeing additional numbers on what kinds of >> questions get answered or not. Do power users get more of their >> questions answered? Are certain tags more answered? (I swear I'll >> get to your navigation questions soon).  >> >> There's the bigger question of what we as a community can do to get >> more questions marked as resolved. The answer is most likely >> somewhere between answering more questions and making sure questions >> are marked as resolved (if they are). Maybe September 19th is >> "Answer ROS Questions Like A Pirate Day".  >> >> -David >> >> P.S. For those who have never heard of >> > it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day >> [4] >> P.P.S. I realize the irony of complaining about questions not being >> answered by asking additional questions.  >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Tully Foote >> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone,  >> >> The 2014 edition of the ROS Metrics Report is now posted at: >> http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2014-07.pdf >> [5] >> >> This is the 4th version of the ROS Metrics report. All are versions >> are available at: http://wiki.ros.org/Metrics [6]  >> >> The ROS community has grown in almost every metric. The one >> exception is that the number of wiki pages has dropped. This is due >> to a concerted cleanup effort earlier this year which removed a lot >> of empty pages with little to no content.  >> >> The other metric which warrants note is the large growth in the >> number of unique IPs per month, up to 49,153 from last years >> sampling of 11,078.  And the total downloads of packages more than >> doubled to 3,570,374 downloads.  >> >> And all of these numbers do not count the any statistics for mirrors >> either private or public. [1]  >> >> If you have a moment we recommend you take a look. There are many >> interesting statistics such as ROS users by country and the top 40 >> most downloaded packages.  >> >> Related to this look for more information on the ROS ecosystem from >> William Curran's talk next week at ROSCon 2014.  [2]  >> >> Tully >> >> [1] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors [7] >> [2] http://roscon.ros.org/2014/program/ [8] >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users [9] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users [9] > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users [9] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://answers.ros.org > [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/moveit-users/join > [3] http://moveit.ros.org/support/ > [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day > [5] > http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2014-07.pdf > [6] http://wiki.ros.org/Metrics > [7] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors > [8] http://roscon.ros.org/2014/program/ > [9] http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users