# GNU Radio && Stack Overflow **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [January 8, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-stack-overflow/233744 "2015-01-08T12:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/addis_a)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-stack-overflow/233744/1 "2015-01-08T12:06:23Z")
Everyone, we’re in an interesting spot community-wise right now, which should be clear to people who’ve been around here for a while, and definitely to everyone at GRCon last year. While we’re still a smallish free software project compared to KDE, Linux etc. we’ve gained a lot of traction in the last years. Also, we cover an interesting spot where all the serious competitors are expensive proprietary software. But let’s cut to the chase: With a community that’s growing as fast as it is, we’ll need to open up new avenues for communication, and weaken our stance that the mailing list is the one-and-only place to ask questions. For this reason, we would like to publicly announce that we’ll be promoting Stack Overflow as an alternative from now on. Right now, it’s just regular Stack Overflow with questions tagged ‘gnuradio’. And people have already been using this: > This was brought up at the “Community” working group at GRCon’14, and Samantha (you may remember her from the panel) has volunteered to initially make sure this gets off on a good start by monitoring SO activities. Now, some disclaimers: Most of us core developers probably won’t be jumping onto this, you’ll find us mostly on this mailing list in the future, as it is right now. However, with such a growth in the community (at conferences all over the world, people who I’ve never heard of are doing GNU Radio tutorials. That’s a good sign!), I’m hoping there’ll be enough volunteers to keep this going. Also, some things are simply better done on the mailing list than Stack Overflow, such as lively discussions, announcements, bug dissections etc. But we get enough one-off questions here which would be better suited on Stack Overflow. The biggest advantage, if you ask me, is that questions tagged ‘good’ on Stack Overflow are very easy to find, and search engines such as DuckDuckGo show these answers directly at the top of search results. Much, much easier than searching the ML archives. OK, everyone. Let’s do this. Martin tl;dr: Stack Overflow can and should be used for questions as well as the mailing list, and we need people to read and answer those Q’s. ---
**Author:** ![pytlik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@pytlik](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pytlik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnu-radio-stack-overflow/233744/2 "2015-01-08T12:25:00Z")
Hi, It’s good news. Stack Overflow is a more general place not to discuss just GNURadio, also \*topics little related \*to GNURadio can be discussed there (as they may be disgusting to be discussed here!). Thank you Martin. Best, Mostafa On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Martin B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > it is, we’ll need to open up new avenues for communication, and weaken > Samantha (you may remember her from the panel) has volunteered to > Also, some things are simply better done on the mailing list than Stack > > tl;dr: Stack Overflow can and should be used for questions as well as > the mailing list, and we need people to read and answer those Q’s. > > * * * > > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [Discuss-gnuradio Info Page](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio) – * * * Department of Electrical Engineering Aboureyhan Building MMWCL LAB Amirkabir University Of Technology Tehran IRAN Tel: +98 (919) 158-7730 LAB: [http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~mmwcl/?page\_id=411](http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~mmwcl/?page_id=411) Homepage: [http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~alizadeh/](http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~alizadeh/) * * *