Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-26 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, I think an ask.gnome.org instance would be a good idea overall, but there would be a couple of things to keep in mind. Before I get into it, though, I wanted to make point about forums and forum software. Jorge Castro from Canonical gave a talk at the recent Open Help Conference* about the

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-24 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Check this out if you haven't seen it before: > > https://help.openstreetmap.org/ > > It looks and feels like Stack Exchange, and it works extremely well (... > as far as I've used it to ask questions about editing OpenStreetMap). >

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-24 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:46 -0007, Jim Nelson wrote: > I'd like to toss in my two cents in support of a Stack Exchange-style > GNOME developer site. I think Stack Exchange is a proven winner for > developers helping each other with technical problems. Ask Ubuntu has > gone over very well, and it

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Jim Nelson
I'd like to toss in my two cents in support of a Stack Exchange-style GNOME developer site. I think Stack Exchange is a proven winner for developers helping each other with technical problems. Ask Ubuntu has gone over very well, and it strikes me that an Ask GNOME would be popular and useful.

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:25 AM, meg ford wrote: > We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else > ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? > > > [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ > > > The problem is that they are unofficial. The reason they were put in

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread meg ford
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 08:25 -0500, meg ford wrote: > > We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something > > else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? > > > > > > [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ > > >

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 08:25 -0500, meg ford wrote: > We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something > else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? > > > [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ > At least se maintains that it is not forum and should have strictly qu

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Étienne BERSAC
Hi, Or something like https://ask.fedoraproject.org/ . There are some alternative to stackoverflow listed at http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones The point is to distinguish user and developers knowledge base, just like library.gnome.org. Regards, Étienne

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread meg ford
We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:18 AM, James wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > > > The Stack exchan

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread James
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > The Stack exchange software (used by Stack overflow) is proprietary. I > think Ubuntu used to have their instance hosted there. > > There is AskBot (http://askbot.org/) which is a free software > alternative. It seems to be used by Fe

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 06/20/2013 12:33 PM, Étienne BERSAC wrote: >> Did you have already such proposition or plan ? Would you like to open a >> ask.gnome.org for developers ? > Would this be similar to Stackoverflow? > I there anyth

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
to find answers to implementation details. As a third party developer, i feel the lake of a ask.gnome.org for developers. Having to git clone other project to read/stole pieces of code is a barrier to contributor and app ecosystem. Did you have already such proposition or plan ? Would you like

ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Étienne BERSAC
a third party developer, i feel the lake of a ask.gnome.org for developers. Having to git clone other project to read/stole pieces of code is a barrier to contributor and app ecosystem. Did you have already such proposition or plan ? Would you like to open a ask.gnome.org for developers