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Useful Flask feeds and best place to ask questions?

From:

Tom Atkins

Date:

2011-07-09 @ 15:17

One of the reasons I like Flask is because of the excellent organisation of
the Flask site - docs, snippets, extension etc - all in one place.

I've recently subscribed to the Flask snippets feed:

http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/recent.atom<http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/>

I've picked up some handy tips from this (thanks for the recent snippets
Armin).

This list is also getting more use and is an excellent source of questions
and answers.  But I find it hard to search the archives effectively.

I'm also subscribed to a feed for questions tagged 'flask' on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/flask

I find the answers easier to search and follow up there.

I don't want to encourage fragmentation of the Flask knowledge-base but what
do people think about encouraging asking of questions on stackoverflow
instead? The answers would be easier to search and it might help improve the
visibility of Flask? Would the Flask 'experts' be happy to follow the
stackoverflow feed? Or is it preferred that I ask questions here?

Hi,

I agree about the non-fragmentation but I personally use email much more 
than StackOverflow.

Email has been around for much longer and there are millions of tools 
out there enabling us to manage it any way we want. StackOverflow only 
works the way StackExchange Inc. has decided it would. That way may be 
good, but if I want to change it I can only do so with tools such as 
Greasemonkey, spending time developing against SO specifically.

It’s always the same centralized vs decentralized system argument.

We can add a search box to the mailing-list archive (or better yet, one 
that searches the whole website, including the ML archive, snippets and 
docs). That said, I don’t know SO well enough to judge. Maybe it is 
truly superior for asking and answering questions?

Regards,
-- 
Simon Sapin

Thanks for the replies.  2 - 1 in favour of the list.  I'll ask questions
here!

Simon's suggestion of a search box on the Flask site or list archives sounds
good.  (The documentation search works well already.)

I think, the best place is Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flask


On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Tom Atkins <minktoast@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the reasons I like Flask is because of the excellent organisation of
> the Flask site - docs, snippets, extension etc - all in one place.
>
> I've recently subscribed to the Flask snippets feed:
>
> http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/recent.atom<http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/>
>
> I've picked up some handy tips from this (thanks for the recent snippets
> Armin).
>
> This list is also getting more use and is an excellent source of questions
> and answers.  But I find it hard to search the archives effectively.
>
> I'm also subscribed to a feed for questions tagged 'flask' on
> stackoverflow:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/flask
>
> I find the answers easier to search and follow up there.
>
> I don't want to encourage fragmentation of the Flask knowledge-base but
> what do people think about encouraging asking of questions on stackoverflow
> instead? The answers would be easier to search and it might help improve the
> visibility of Flask? Would the Flask 'experts' be happy to follow the
> stackoverflow feed? Or is it preferred that I ask questions here?
>

Hey,

I guess the email-list would be better. Not everyone wants to use another
website to keep track of stuff. We all use e-mail.. why not stick to it?
But, I agree with your point about archival.. but you have mailing list
archives for that purpose. ;)

Just my $.02.

On 9 July 2011 20:47, Tom Atkins <minktoast@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the reasons I like Flask is because of the excellent organisation of
> the Flask site - docs, snippets, extension etc - all in one place.
>
> I've recently subscribed to the Flask snippets feed:
>
> http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/recent.atom<http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/>
>
> I've picked up some handy tips from this (thanks for the recent snippets
> Armin).
>
> This list is also getting more use and is an excellent source of questions
> and answers.  But I find it hard to search the archives effectively.
>
> I'm also subscribed to a feed for questions tagged 'flask' on
> stackoverflow:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/flask
>
> I find the answers easier to search and follow up there.
>
> I don't want to encourage fragmentation of the Flask knowledge-base but
> what do people think about encouraging asking of questions on stackoverflow
> instead? The answers would be easier to search and it might help improve the
> visibility of Flask? Would the Flask 'experts' be happy to follow the
> stackoverflow feed? Or is it preferred that I ask questions here?
>



-- 
Regards,
Ishbir Singh