A Challenge for ST

[waclawek.jan]

https://community.st.com/s/feed/0D50X0000BiD5iz

The true challenge for ST of course is to stop experimenting with "communities" and get a decent forum software.

(In case ST would not get it, this post does not show up in the posts list, even if it's tagged "STM32MCUs" it shows up only in the "group" or "community" or whatever that other completely unneeded list is). @brk​ 

JW

#worst_forum_software_ever

[Amel NASRI]

It doesn't appear in the list because simply it is not a "question" but a "discussion".

I just explain, doesn't mean I agree to have both of them ;) .

Jan, I move your post to "About this Community".

[waclawek.jan]

Hi ​ @Amel NASRI​ ,

> I move your post to "About this Community".

You mean, "The Place For Rants Nobody Cares Of" =)

As the linked post is still material to the main STM32 topic and as a "disussion" it's still invisible to the main forum, I sort of put it back through the respective tag ("Topic").

Jan

[Ozone]

I concur with Jan - this topic is highly relevant for the STM32.

CubeMX/Cube/HAL is the first-experience interface to the user.

While I personally find the H7 family highly interesting, guess why I did not dare to touch it ...

[Amel NASRI]

Hi Ozone,

Please share your comments on the other discussion (https://community.st.com/s/feed/0D50X0000BiD5iz). It is more relevant to gather such feedback on the same thread.

Thanks,

Amel

[waclawek.jan]

> Putting the stuff on github

I wonder, why this comes up so often.

Github is a service. One of many, even if maybe the most recognized one today.

But, at the end of the day It's nothing but combination of web, software (primarily, git server), storage, social interaction. I see major overlap with other web-based functions ST desperately needs.

I believe any decent company providing forum software could quite easily add the git server and a few related services. IMO a great opportunity to ditch salesforce and go for something really useful.

That basic examples ought not to be bound to a particular IDE, and that they ought not be bound to a particular "library", that's another important issue ST needs to recognize. IMO, ditching Cube and kin, and going for decent down-to-the-roots examples with a slew of concise documentation, leads quite straighforwardly to examples working out-of-the-box for all competent users.

These things tend to go hand in hand, because they stem in clear thinking, as opposite to marketing fluff.

JW

[Ozone]

While I fully agree, I have some experience with companies about as large as ST.

There are prestiges and careers on the line, and department budgets to defend.

Think of the Challenger disaster, where almost all deciders knew what was almost sure to come.

[waclawek.jan]

So, you think, almost everybody at ST knows they are at the downward slope?

JW