[ros-users] Unanswered Questions on answers.ros.org

Fri Sep 5 05:20:50 UTC 2014

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 <davetcoleman at gmail.com>
> 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!! <davidlu at wustl.edu>
>> 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
>> <tfoote at osrfoundation.org> 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]
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> Links:
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> [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
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> [6] http://wiki.ros.org/Metrics
> [7] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors
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