Suggestion on community building

[Sen]

Hi ,

The new website looks great . Congratulations to the SOFA team. I believe information is being gradually migrated over from the oldwiki. However sometimes the docs can go out of sync. ( including the Tutorial docs )

Is it a good idea to enable comments under each page so the community can post comments where they find the doc out of date.

For eg in
Comparing
https://www.sofa-framework.org/support/doc/build-on-linux/
I found that the minimum cmake is now 2.8.11 and I eventually upgraded my package from ppa:smspillaz/cmake-2.8.12 instead of whats shown on the page.Equally some newlines are missing in the instruction around “CC=”gcc” CXX=”g++” cmake”

The community and new starters can probably alert you to these inaccuracies when they read the pages.
This would especially apply to the Tutorial pages which I have found to be out of date on more than 1 occasion.

You can always delete the comment when its purpose is served.

I know the forum is meant to be the place for collaboration. I find it a bit thin in attendance terms.

With the upcoming consortium, it might reduce “free” forum conversation on the forum even more, and that might reduce oppurtunities to hear back from community. Enabling comments on the pages in the website could help.

Happy New Year and Best wishes to the SOFA team in 2016.

best
Sourav

[François Faure]

I agree. Comments would be a very valuable feedback,
FF

[Guillaume]

Hi Sen,

You got a very good point here. Bringing the community into SOFA improvements is the first purpose of the Consortium.

We will work on this ASAP and keep you informed here 🙂

Best wishes for 2016,
Guillaume.

[Guillaume]

Hi Sen,

I added a comment section at the bottom of all documentation pages.

Please do not hesitate to continue your feedback, it is highly appreciated !

Thanks,
Guillaume.

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