Are the tutorials in:
Moderated or endorsed by the Arduino community in any sense?
I appreciate its virtually impossible to guarantee code etc. is completely bug free, but I'm trying to work out how careful I need to be before assuming Tutorial code is reliable.
Forgive me if this is a duplicate or inappropriate - I'm an Arduino newby.
Not by the community. As far as I can see, they are all written by Arduino (staff). But that is no guarantee that schematics and/or code are bug free.
It seems to me to be a case where open source is a double-edged sword; a product like Linux (for example) benefits from being used by a large population of knowledgeable users, and so any bugs or deficiencies are spotted quickly and fixed equally quickly.
For a hobbyist platform like Arduino, the knowledgeable users probably never even see basic tutorials, and new users may well simply give up when they hit their first hurdle.
My 0.02€
Hello sloopjohnt
Use these tutorials as kickoff for your porjects.
The combination of these will help you by the realisation.
And in cases of problems we will help.
Have a nice day and enjoy coding in C++.
As far as "moderated" goes, the tutorial content is hosted in a public GitHub repository and anyone from the community is welcome to submit reports of errors and proposals for corrections and improvements, and even the addition of new tutorials there:
That is not exactly "moderated", but the community does have the ability to participate in the maintenance of the content.
In years past, the tutorials were hosted in a private content management system. The community could still submit error reports and suggestions to an issue tracker, but there was no ability to interact with the content directly and the people responsible for maintaining the content were not as active in monitoring the feedback from the community as they are now. Since this new open and transparent system is relatively new, some community members are likely still not aware of the change and so we might see an increase in involvement from the community over time as it becomes more well known.
Thank you.
This is extremely useful.
I was aware of (and had used) the relevant Github process, but wasn't aware of the history. I guess the implication is that one needs to be more careful with recent tutorials than older ones.
Hello sloopjohnt
In case of troubles an online references is needed.
Noted.
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