<div dir="ltr">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 <a href="http://answers.ros.org">answers.ros.org</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>Geoff</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 September 2014 12:00, Dave Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davetcoleman@gmail.com" target="_blank">davetcoleman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Instead of hijacking Tully's 2014 Metrics Report thread I've renamed this thread to comment on David's question :-)<div>
<br></div><div>This is just one aspect of the issue, but I see on <a href="http://answers.ros.org" target="_blank">answers.ros.org</a> 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 <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/moveit-users/join" target="_blank">user mailing list</a>, secondary is Github issues, but also there are the <a href="http://answers.ros.org" target="_blank">answers.ros.org</a> questions. Instructions for how to get MoveIt! support are <a href="http://moveit.ros.org/support/" target="_blank">here</a>, but I understand why some users are confused. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font>dave coleman</font></span></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:19 PM, David Lu!! <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidlu@wustl.edu" target="_blank">davidlu@wustl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for putting together the report, Tully. <br></div><div><br></div>One additional metric that has gone up over the past four years is the percentage of questions on <a href="http://answers.ros.org" target="_blank">answers.ros.org</a> 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. <div>
<br></div><div>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). </div>
<div><br></div><div>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". </div>
<div><br></div><div>-David</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. For those who have never heard of it: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day</a></div>
<div>P.P.S. I realize the irony of complaining about questions not being answered by asking additional questions. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Tully Foote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org" target="_blank">tfoote@osrfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone, <div>
<br><div><br></div><div><div>The 2014 edition of the ROS Metrics Report is now posted at: <a href="http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2014-07.pdf" target="_blank">http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2014-07.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This is the 4th version of the ROS Metrics report. All are versions are available at: <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/Metrics" target="_blank">http://wiki.ros.org/Metrics</a> </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>And all of these numbers do not count the any statistics for mirrors either private or public. [1] </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Related to this look for more information on the ROS ecosystem from William Curran's talk next week at ROSCon 2014. [2] </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tully</div><div><br></div>
<div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors" target="_blank">http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://roscon.ros.org/2014/program/" target="_blank">http://roscon.ros.org/2014/program/</a></div></div>
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