Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Filippo Fadda
re >> stimulated to answer by the reputation mechanism. >> I don't think SO should be the only programming community, but I think >> it's better for the CouchDB contributors to focus on CouchDB itself, using >> external services when they are available. StackOver

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
> option, Discourse can be another, a little more expensive (you need to host > it somewhere, to upgrade when a new version come out, and you also need > some mods), OSQA is gonna probably require a major effort because it's not > maintained anymore. > > > If we have someone to s

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Filippo Fadda
st cheap option, Discourse can be another, a little more expensive (you need to host it somewhere, to upgrade when a new version come out, and you also need some mods), OSQA is gonna probably require a major effort because it's not maintained anymore. > If we have someone to set it up a

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Mark Deibert wrote: > @Matt: "Devil's Advocate" or "The Devil's Advocate". The later features > Charlize Theron and that's a very good thing! > > Yes ^that one, with Charlize! (and Neo, and Pacino)

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
@Matt: "Devil's Advocate" or "The Devil's Advocate". The later features Charlize Theron and that's a very good thing! Yeah I know, I was mostly kidding about the "eliminate all other sites" bit ;-) I'm just so very tired and bored with SO. Tired of having to sift through a hundred+ SO garbage pos

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Mark Deibert wrote: > @Filippo and a couple others: Are you arguing that it would be acceptable > to forcibly close and eliminate all other programming communities because > SO/SE is so absolutely perfect that we don't need any other online > communities? I am ce

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
a > > separate site, at least on StackOverflow where a programmer can be > > interested in both Android and CouchDB and he wants earn reputation > > answering questions related to different arguments. > > > > -Filippo > > > > On Oct 31,

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
id and CouchDB and he wants earn reputation > answering questions related to different arguments. > > -Filippo > > On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. wrote: > > > I was talking about the osqa tool. > > > > One the topic of couchdb.stackexchang

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Filippo Fadda
15 PM, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. wrote: > I was talking about the osqa tool. > > One the topic of couchdb.stackexchange.com sub domain: I develop android for > a living and never use the Android SX page, I think they are kind of > pointless. I rather stick to SO and answe

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn.
I was talking about the osqa tool. One the topic of couchdb.stackexchange.com sub domain: I develop android for a living and never use the Android SX page, I think they are kind of pointless. I rather stick to SO and answer tags "matt j. sorenson" wrote: >On Thu, Oct 31, 20

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
@Matt: Your point about managers search for "CouchDB" and seeing the SO/SE results at the top are certainly valid. However, this is something that can be easily managed with good SEO on the (some) new CouchDB Community site. No reason for your own site not to appear at/near the top of Google/Bing/Y

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Mark Deibert wrote: > "Discourse" is looking another "partner" site to run and test their > software. Not sure if this is worth a look or not. It's not the Q&A format > that's been discussed so far, but it sure looks very modern and > interesting... > > http://www

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
els (e.g. SO) to make their 2-minute determination on whether it is indeed viable technology... and so on :) > > To be clear I am looking for a tool to handle QA that can be controlled by > the community: the content license, the way you can extend it... It > appeared to me that OSQA could

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
; discuss here. > > Also I don't buy the argument of "there are more people on SO". One true > thing is that most are here too even if you had to register. Simply reusing > your email could also work as your login, you don't need more. > > But I don't want

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Benoit Chesneau
n such considerations yet. It's kind of premature. To be clear I am looking for a tool to handle QA that can be controlled by the community: the content license, the way you can extend it... It appeared to me that OSQA could have been a good way to do it. From the discussion I can see a list of q

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Filippo Fadda
+1 On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:32 PM, matt j. sorenson wrote: > An anecdote on re: manpower applied to a theoretical ASF-hosted alternative > > I've been a participant of and observer to the Drupal open source community > for nearly a decade. Drupal version 7 was released, I believe, in March > 2011.

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
An anecdote on re: manpower applied to a theoretical ASF-hosted alternative I've been a participant of and observer to the Drupal open source community for nearly a decade. Drupal version 7 was released, I believe, in March 2011. Drupal.org, the canonical destination for contributions to drupal al

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread matt j. sorenson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn. < st...@meredrica.org> wrote: > The problem I see is account explosion. I have a SO account, why would I > register another? Also, I would not even think about looking somewhere else > first (apart from docs and Google) > > This is [

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn.
The problem I see is account explosion. I have a SO account, why would I register another? Also, I would not even think about looking somewhere else first (apart from docs and Google) Daniel Gonzalez wrote: >If you are worried that no specific stack exchange site will be created >for >couchdb,

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Filippo Fadda
As you can see there are just few specialized sites, but the critical mass maybe it's not important, in fact there is a site dedicated to Tridon and another one to SharePoint. The Area 51 FAQ doesn't answer the question, but maybe it is a good start. http://area51.stackexchange.com/ http://area

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
If you are worried that no specific stack exchange site will be created for couchdb, why not just officially address support/issues to the couchdb tag in stack overflow? For example, Ember.js is doing just that: http://emberjs.com/community "StackOverflow is used to track questions. Just tag your

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Mark Deibert
@Filippo: Can you qualify "not big enough"? On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:09 PM, matt j. sorenson >wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Benoit Chesneau > >wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:50 PM, matt j. sorenson < > m..

Re: osqa

2013-10-31 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:09 PM, matt j. sorenson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Benoit Chesneau >wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:50 PM, matt j. sorenson > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > > > > > > >> My goal is to have

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Filippo Fadda
You can try to ask, but I don't think Stack Exchange will create a network site for CouchDB. I think the CouchDB user base is not big enough. -Filippo On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:09 PM, matt j. sorenson wrote: > SO and the ever-expanding stackexchange topic-centric sites have tremendous > traction, i

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread matt j. sorenson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:50 PM, matt j. sorenson >wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > > > > >> My goal is to have a website managed by the Apache CouchDB project > > where > > > >> the neutral

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:50 PM, matt j. sorenson wrote: > > > > >> On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > > >> My goal is to have a website managed by the Apache CouchDB project > where > > >> the neutrality, privacy and independence is guaranteed. Having a > system > > we > >

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread matt j. sorenson
> > >> On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > >> My goal is to have a website managed by the Apache CouchDB project where > >> the neutrality, privacy and independence is guaranteed. Having a system > we > >> can host where all the content is under the apache license would make > s

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Nick North
ke quite a bit of work, which might be better spent on CouchDb. Nick > On 30 Oct 2013, at 17:31, Filippo Fadda > wrote: > > Someone told me to not argue with you and I don't. :-) > > Anyway I'm not saying OSQA doesn't fit the CouchDB community needs, I'm

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
up such QA system. > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > indeed. there was also my unmaintained nymphormation: https://github.com/benoitc/nymphormation - benoit > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Benoit Chesneau > wrote: > > I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more &

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > > Anyway I'm not saying OSQA doesn't fit the CouchDB community needs, I'm >> just saying OSQA can't be compared with StackOverflow in term of >> functionalities. StackOverflow is a complex s

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
ng in the open . Anyway I'm not saying OSQA doesn't fit the CouchDB community needs, I'm > just saying OSQA can't be compared with StackOverflow in term of > functionalities. StackOverflow is a complex software system with versioning > management, moderation ba

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Alexander Shorin
: > I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more > in phase which what I described sometimes ago to handle the questions and > such things from any user. I wonder if someone already tested it and if it > would be a good fit for us: > > http://www.osqa.net/ > > thoughts? > > - benoit

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Filippo Fadda
Someone told me to not argue with you and I don't. :-) Anyway I'm not saying OSQA doesn't fit the CouchDB community needs, I'm just saying OSQA can't be compared with StackOverflow in term of functionalities. StackOverflow is a complex software system with versionin

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Filippo Fadda < filippo.fa...@programmazione.it> wrote: > OSQA has just a subset of StackOverflow features. You can't even compare > them. I'm implementing something similar to StackOverflow (with some Reddit > and WordPress features) a

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Filippo Fadda
OSQA has just a subset of StackOverflow features. You can't even compare them. I'm implementing something similar to StackOverflow (with some Reddit and WordPress features) and I really know what I'm talking about. Programmers tend to minimize the complexity of a system, but Sta

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Tim Black
On 10/30/2013 03:09 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more > in phase which what I described sometimes ago to handle the questions and > such things from any user. I wonder if someone already tested it and if it > would b

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Alexander Shorin
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more > in phase which what I described sometimes ago to handle the questions and > such things from any user. I wonder if someone already tested it and if it &

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread matt j. sorenson
omeone should > install OSQA and give a look to see what it can do. Maybe it's better, > maybe not. There so much going on at SO. So much static there. A nice, > focused on Couch only, site would be my preference :-) > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Aurélien Bénel &

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Melo
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Mark Deibert wrote: > I suppose it's very similar to SO and perhaps no better. Someone should > install OSQA and give a look to see what it can do. Maybe it's better, > maybe not. There so much going on at SO. So much static there. A nice, >

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Mark Deibert
I suppose it's very similar to SO and perhaps no better. Someone should install OSQA and give a look to see what it can do. Maybe it's better, maybe not. There so much going on at SO. So much static there. A nice, focused on Couch only, site would be my preference :-) On Wed, Oct 30,

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Aurélien Bénel
Hi, > OSQA looks like the exact tool we need for CouchDB discussion/Q&A! Why would it succeed better than StackOverFlow? Just because it is open-source? Regards, Aurélien

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Brad Rhoads
OSQA is pretty good. But not being retained any more. I think we might as well you stack overflow. On Oct 30, 2013 2:10 AM, "Benoit Chesneau" wrote: > > I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more > in phase which what I described sometime

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Mark Deibert
OSQA looks like the exact tool we need for CouchDB discussion/Q&A! On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Garren Smith wrote: > Hi Benoit, > > That looks really good. I think that could be quite helpful for Couchdb. > It would definitely make it easier for someone to search and disco

Re: osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Garren Smith
: I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more in phase which what I described sometimes ago to handle the questions and such things from any user. I wonder if someone already tested it and if it would be a good fit for us: http://www.osqa.net/ thoughts? - benoit

osqa

2013-10-30 Thread Benoit Chesneau
I discovered recently OSQA which is an opensource QA system which is more in phase which what I described sometimes ago to handle the questions and such things from any user. I wonder if someone already tested it and if it would be a good fit for us: http://www.osqa.net/ thoughts? - benoit