[scikit-image] Linking to stackoverflow

[Mark Harfouche]

Maybe we should link on the README file

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:50 PM Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni at fastmail.com>
wrote:

> The mailing list is indeed magical! =D
>
> I believe Stéfan monitors the "skimage" and "scikit-image" tags on SO, as
> every now and then he asks me to answer one, but I don't think the core
> team as a whole monitors SO. (To answer your specific question, SO uses
> tags for organisation, and as I understand it that's all it uses. It then
> relies on search, including Google search, to get people to the answers
> they need.)
>
> You're right that gitter isn't quite the right model.
>
> Slightly longer term, there is a plan to have scikit-image be part of a
> joint "image analysis" Discourse forum comprising ImageJ, CellProfiler,
> skimage, and perhaps other projects. Discourse seems to be exactly the
> right model. See the ImageJ forums for what it looks like:
> http://forum.imagej.net
>
> Juan.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 10:41 AM, Mark Harfouche wrote:
>
> Where would be the appropriate place to link people to stack overflow?
> Does scikit-image have it's own stackoverflow page?
> How does stackoverflow really work, Google always points me there, but is
> it organized in any way?
>
> I really don't like gitter since people's questions can get bumped really
> far off and it can look like we aren't willing to help them.
>
> This came up in the at BIDS a few weeks back, but using mailing lists is
> not something that that people that got introduced to the internet post y2k
> are accustomed to (myself included ;) ).
>
> This relates to the point:
>
> https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/3214#issuecomment-398935031
>
>
> N.B. I was going to make an issue for this, but I figured I would try this
> magical mailing list ;)
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