+1 for IRC to start discussions. I used to go on ros IRC but stopped as there wasn't anyone around most of the time. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Claudio Carbone wrote: > > > Marcus Liebhardt wrote: > >One thing I really do miss on the Q&A style forums is a place for > >discussing problems. It's great to ask specific questions people know > >answers to, but finding the root cause of a new problem together with > >others often turns into long lists of comments and/or answers, which do > >not > >really solve the problem. For those situations I would prefer a forum. > >Maybe we can find a way to bring both Q&A and forum together. > > Seeing how the POV here is about avoiding lengthy and unfruitful > discussions (forum style) but the need to do some discussion still > lingers,I would suggest pushing irc a bit more. > > There are about 10 people daily on the irc channel, I've ever only saw 2 > or 3 saying anything beside me. > > I can see that as a decent place for impromptu discussion. > > Best regards > Claudio > > -- sent from my ParanoidAndroid Nexus with K-9 Mail. > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- Ugo Cupcic | Shadow Robot Company | ugo@shadowrobot.com Senior Software Engineer | 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? | London N1 1LX | +44 20 7700 2487 http://www.shadowrobot.com/hand/ @shadowrobot