This falls into the category of "ideas I don't have time to implement but which I keep thinking about." So I'll throw it out to everyone else in case someone feels inspired.
I've spent some time over the past couple of weeks poking at StackOverflow (yes, behind the curve of the entire rest of the world) and have found myself wishing for a version of StackOverflow that would welcome the sorts of questions that show up in debian-mentors and debian-devel and in our various IRC channels. I think it would provide some benefits: * An archived source of answers that can be searched and will be searched when creating new questions. * Some sort of community feedback process for answers so that people who don't know how to judge will know which answers are probably best. * Gamification makes answering questions more fun, and therefore likely increases the speed of answers and the chances that a question will be answered. There are, of course, tons of Debian questions already in StackOverflow (and ServerFault, and Unix and Linux StackExchange), but they're mostly end-user questions rather than packaging and contributor questions, and they're drowned out by lots of other stuff. (The "debian" tag tends to get attached to anything anyone does on Debian even if it's not particularly Debian-specific.) Plus, obviously they're proprietary, closed platforms run by someone else, with possible data mining and privacy implications, etc. A colleague of mine did an internal evaluation of possible locally-hosted StackOverflow-style applications and found one that looks pretty good: http://www.question2answer.org/ It's licensed under the GPL v2+ and is something that we could install and host. It's not currently packaged for Debian; we did a quick and dirty packaging for internal purposes (including the REMOTE_USER authentication plugin), but I haven't taken a close look at what we did. I don't think we did anything special. I think this would be a great project if someone felt like working on it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4iq19t6....@windlord.stanford.edu