Re: [Openstack] [openstack-community] [Ask] Guidelines for answering question on Ask
[trimming the cc] On Sat 11 May 2013 07:30:13 AM PDT, John Wong wrote: Can we have a template? I think it would be really helpful if by default there is a template / form to fill out. Not sure if the underlying software has that mechanism. Basically to do support, it'd really important to know the version used, system. I think it's a good idea. The software allows already to insert a short text blurb on https://ask.openstack.org/questions/ask/ People don't usually read but I think it's better to put something there than nothing :) What would you write there? -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Openstack] [openstack-community] [Ask] Guidelines for answering question on Ask
Can we have a template? I think it would be really helpful if by default there is a template / form to fill out. Not sure if the underlying software has that mechanism. Basically to do support, it'd really important to know the version used, system. Thoughts? John On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Adam Nelson a...@varud.com wrote: This is great work. It might be better though to put the moderator rules on the ask.openstack.org site itself rather than the wiki so that you can link to it in the header without leaving the 'ask' site. Stackoverflow uses the 'faq' as the link in the header for this type of information: http://stackoverflow.com/faq Just my two cents. Cheers, Adam https://twitter.com/varud https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Stefano Maffulli stef...@openstack.orgwrote: Hello folks, now that the traffic on https://ask.openstack.org has increased, I think it's time we start collecting guidelines for the moderators so we keep having a very informative tool, with consistently good questions and answers. I think it helps for example to pay attention to the titles of the questions and make them as explicit and clear as possible. The titles need to look like questions. Good examples are: * Where can I find instructions on how to setup OpenStack Grizzly on VMware Workstation? * How to set up metadata service on a flat network? * Why do I get No portal found error while attaching cinder volume to VM? I have started collecting best practices from Ask Ubuntu, Mozilla and Stackoverflow to be published on this page: https://wiki.openstack.org/**wiki/Community/AskModeratorshttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Community/AskModerators Do you have other examples, guidelines that we can imitate? thanks stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org __**_ Community mailing list commun...@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**communityhttp://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Openstack] [openstack-community] [Ask] Guidelines for answering question on Ask
This is great work. It might be better though to put the moderator rules on the ask.openstack.org site itself rather than the wiki so that you can link to it in the header without leaving the 'ask' site. Stackoverflow uses the 'faq' as the link in the header for this type of information: http://stackoverflow.com/faq Just my two cents. Cheers, Adam https://twitter.com/varud https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Stefano Maffulli stef...@openstack.orgwrote: Hello folks, now that the traffic on https://ask.openstack.org has increased, I think it's time we start collecting guidelines for the moderators so we keep having a very informative tool, with consistently good questions and answers. I think it helps for example to pay attention to the titles of the questions and make them as explicit and clear as possible. The titles need to look like questions. Good examples are: * Where can I find instructions on how to setup OpenStack Grizzly on VMware Workstation? * How to set up metadata service on a flat network? * Why do I get No portal found error while attaching cinder volume to VM? I have started collecting best practices from Ask Ubuntu, Mozilla and Stackoverflow to be published on this page: https://wiki.openstack.org/**wiki/Community/AskModeratorshttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Community/AskModerators Do you have other examples, guidelines that we can imitate? thanks stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org __**_ Community mailing list commun...@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**communityhttp://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
