No discussion at the ASF is complete until we have had it twice. A month or so ago, there was a lengthy thread about stackoverflow.com on members@. It rather dribbled out.
Recently, someone re-stirred that pot, and Nick Burch recommended taking it over here rather than fill all the members@ mailboxes *again*. A slightly biased summary: 1) Some of us observe that many people are posting questions about Apache projects on stackoverflow.com. Some of them are getting good answers, some less so. Some TLPs have taken note of this and made some effort to provide support there. Some haven't. 2) Some of us find the format of stackoverflow.com and related sites to be an interesting and efficient way to facility a community of support for some kinds of issues. Other people don't see the attraction. 3) The stackoverflow.com family uses a particular CC license that would seem to pose problems for anyone grabbing 'too much' material from there and incorporating it into an Apache activity. Note that this question poses a risk independent of anything else described here. Possible reactions discussed on members@: 1) Nothing. Let TLPs do what they want in interacting with so.com. Perhaps, as a side-order, get some guidance from legal about how much copy-and-paste is too much copy-and-paste from so or other CC-whatever sources. 2) Actively encourage engagement with the SEI sites to push the Apache brand and improve our image by providing high-quality assistance to users in any reasonable forum. 3) Host our own variation on the theme, presumably using OSQA (an open source clone/tribute band) of SEI. 4) Talk to the SEI management about their choice of license. 5) Propose an ASF site for SEI at their area51 site. 6) ? I'm personally not invested in any of this, but this thread is intended to at least be a lightning rod to spare members@ an interminable debate about all these topics.
