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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:13:01PM +0200, Marco Morandini wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 03:15 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> >On 15 April 2013 18:36, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>We still get user questions on Launchpad and questions have started to
> >>appear on the new mailing list.
> >>
> >>I suggest we try to move the user questions (or a subset of them) to
> >>stackexchange as quickly as possible.
> >>
> >>We need to write a short list of instructions for what kinds of
> >>questions and discussion should go to which place.
> >>
> >>Here's a starting point:
> >>
> >>(1) scicomp.stackexchange: user questions
> >>
> >>- user question: how do I do <foo> in FEniCS?
> >>- user question: what is a stable method for <foo> (in FEniCS)?
>
> A plea from a user: please set up a mailing list for this,
> don't use stackexchange or any other type of forum.
> A mailing list can be searched and indexed just like a forum;
> as a bonus point you can save the (threaded) discussion that most
> interest you in your hd.
> And if you want to change your server
> you can do it without losing all the past discussions.

Stackexchange is perfectly searchable and provides a range of features
that will help both users and FEniCS developers to produce good
questions and answers.

--
Anders