What about discourse? -- http://www.discourse.org/ That's a platform we should consider too.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Hansson <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally agree with that! > > > 2014-07-24 22:09 GMT+02:00 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <[email protected]>: > >> Yeah, the big value of a voting-based system like this over a forum is >> that it's clearly visible which are the important problems. >> And questions don't get asked over and over again because the voting >> system gives them more visibility. >> >> Am 24.07.2014 21:07 schrieb Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>: >> > >> > On Thursday 24 July 2014 20:54:28 Mark Ziegler wrote: >> > > Am 24.07.14 12:35, schrieb Jos Poortvliet: >> > > > On Wednesday 23 July 2014 12:11:18 Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> > > >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:15 AM, <[email protected]> >> > > >> wrote: >> > > >>> Stackoverflow is 3rd party and as previous writers mentioned >> > > >>> Stackoverflow >> > > >>> has a different audience. >> > > >> >> > > >> Developers should use whatever makes them productive. >> > > >> >> > > >> I would much prefer Askbot [1] over Stackoverflow as the official >> > > >> help >> > > >> channel for users. Askbot is GPLv3. Take a look at Fedora writeup >> > > >> [2]. >> > > >> Q & A comes pretty natural to folks Askbot also supports Oauth so >> > > >> creating account takes hardly a second. >> > > >> >> > > >> It would be better in long term to officially consolidate the >> > > >> community. >> > > >> >> > > >> [1] https://askbot.com/ >> > > >> [2] >> > > >> http://fedoramagazine.org/ask-fedora-getting-started-and-helping-out >> > > > >> > > > Askbot and ask fedora look nice. Mark, what do you think about this? >> > > > It >> > > > would have the advantages of the forums but perhaps make it easier >> > > > for >> > > > users to use?!? >> > > >> > > I have no experience with Askbot and after looking at their website I >> > > still have no tendency ... >> > > >> > > You said "easier for users to use". Do you mean joining and posting at >> > > a >> > > forum is a barrier? >> > >> > Well, forum software is usually not super user friendly, askbot seemed >> > quite >> > more 2014 to me and it is much more clearly focused on asking and >> > answering >> > questions. With the views, the votes - I think it is nice. >> > >> > But it is also different and I don't want to shove it down your throat, >> > please don't think that. Heck, somebody has to set it up, too, and that >> > won't >> > be me so there's nothing I can do other than talk ;-) >> > >> > > >> > > Cheers, >> > > Mark >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
