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What are the best ways to get answers with Eclipse use? [message #1817432]

Fri, 22 November 2019 05:58

Russell Longo

Messages: 6
Registered: November 2019

Junior Member

I figured forum access might be a way to get answers, even if it's not the fastest way to the answer.

However, I am seeing a very low answer reply rate on the posts, if I am seeing things correctly. There are posts with hundreds or even thousands of views, and no replies!!

Maybe that means I need to pay for a mentor, and that would be fine if it really is the best way to get help on the tool.

Or local user groups? Virtual user groups?

Open to suggestions if the forums are the right place for reasonable interaction with the community.

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Re: What are the best ways to get answers with Eclipse use? [message #1817444 is a reply to message #1817432]

Fri, 22 November 2019 09:49

Emmanuel Chebbi

Messages: 123
Registered: February 2018

Senior Member

Hi,

I would guess that some posts remain unanswered because they are seen by people that either do not know how to answer them or do not have the time to investiguate the issue in details (sadly everyone is always very busy!). It really depends on the forum, though, as for example the EMF and Sirius forums are pretty active.

Depending on your needs, you may also try to get answers by:

asking questions on StackOverflow using, for instance, the eclipse, eclipse-rcp and eclipse-plugin tags,
contacting users/developers via one of the many mailing lists,
reporting a bug in Eclipse's Bugzilla.