hi, Just want to give an example of open source project that use Discourse: https://discuss.aerospike.com/
NodeBB is probably the closely alternative to Discourse as a modern forum software regards, mingfai On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:16 PM, James Green <james.mk.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the missing is a culture in which consumers put questions directly > into documentation for answering by the next person who reads it and knows > the answer. > > Note that it's not good enough to implement an append-only authorship for > Q&As, the question and the answer need to feed back into a re-wording of > the original documentation. > > Using plain text sources for documentation such as asciidoc within a > simple editing suite (github is just about good enough) lowers the barriers. > > > On 16 April 2015 at 09:28, Simon Lundström <si...@su.se> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 09:15:25 +0100, James Green wrote: >> […] >> > It was never intended to document software use, which is what support >> lists >> > like this end up being used for. If I want to know how to do something >> or >> > what I might be doing wrong I'd prefer to place the question in >> precisely >> > the correct way and have it answered as part of the ongoing >> documentation >> > effort for others to read. This ongoing refinement of knowledge is what >> > ultimately drives forward adoption. A mailing list of far too >> fragmented to >> > achieve this - wrong tool for the job. >> >> I don't think forums (and thus Discourse) is the solution for this >> either. StackOverflow et.al. is OK but it's not really a good medium >> IMO. The project should take ownership of their docs and discussions so >> they can be correct and not just guessing. >> >> Official documentation which can be contributed to (via PRs is OK for >> me) by the community is a better solution IMO. This demands a clear >> structure from the project where things are supposed to be (i.e. >> "reference documentation for plugin X" vs. "this is how I solved X" vs. >> "What's best practice for LS/ES/plugin X") so we don't get yet another >> messy place where noone can find anything and it's an exhausting and >> daunting experience to find (or add) anything. >> >> > However many times have we asked Google a question and come back with a >> > mailing list post four-five years old which appears to be on the money, >> yet >> > the answer no longer appears to apply? >> >> I agree and even worse is when noone has answered it all and it's the >> only hit. Or my favourite: when your (generic and/or exact) search query >> yields no hits at all. >> >> BR, >> - Simon >> >> -- >> Remember: if a new user has a bad time, it's a bug in logstash. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "logstash-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to logstash-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAMH6%2Baz9e5duKcAMqCRuWy8ZhbhQW6q4QzNEdZXutrqUy22sJQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAMH6%2Baz9e5duKcAMqCRuWy8ZhbhQW6q4QzNEdZXutrqUy22sJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAMJPd-%3DCa9%2BKoj4ETXWepSmY6Y%3Dx%3DXh%2BNdgMXqJ0AytPN4Jv%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
