Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Here is the list of requirements we gathered: > > * good search engine > * ability to promote question and best answer to FAQ > * good looking and nice to use > * custom domain (like ask.openstack.org) > * layout customizable, to give it the "openstack.org look" > * use Launchpad login > * Tagging > * Use of a reputation system to encourage participation and get a better > handle on authoritative answers > * a method or process for flagging topics which should migrate into > documentation and/or the wiki. In details: (1) a way of flagging a > question or discussion as a doc bug, a potential enhancement, or even a > product bug. 2) A way of closing the loop, and updating the question to > indicate the issue is resolved/fixed, and no longer relevant. > * a way to assign a question to a particular version (or milestone) in > order to better mark questions (and answers) as obsolete > > I would add an extra requirement: that the tool itself must be 'free as > in freedom' software. > > I'm assuming we want all of these requirements satisfied. We should > start talking about tools now. > > What tool do you know that allows us to satisfy these requirements? Help > me build a list of tools to evaluate. I'm especially interested in > seeing whether we can improve upon the tools we already have.
I think a stackexchange clone could, with proper use of tagging, satisfy all these. There are a lot of unfinished projects... The most interesting candidate probably is: AskBot (Python/Django, GPL) - http://askbot.com/ Used by Fedora at http://ask.fedoraproject.org/questions/, can use Launchpad OpenID for auth. The next two in line are: Shapado (Ruby) - http://shapado.com/ : Very active, but confusing UI... OSQA (Python) - http://www.osqa.net/ : No activity in the last 8 months -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp