Dear community, I am pleased to inform the release the first (beta) revision of pyStack.com, an open source questions and answers web application loosely based on the successful stack overflow web site. pyStack aims to be a simple to use Q&A app with all the fat trimmed off and at the same time easy to use for the inexperienced user and complex enough for the hard-core one.
It is based on a "reputation" system in which the user "earns" points by means of voting up (or down) anyone's questions or answers, the system uses a role-based authentication system in which a new "role" is earned by means of accumulated points. As the user earns new roles, more options are available to him/her, such as ability to close a question, upgrade another user to a new role, ban questions, etc. The basic user can only add questions and answer, whereas the "SysAdmin" user can control the fate of the entire site. I made this site in hopes that web2py gets an even better reputation and to pay homage to the Open Source movement, something I heavily support. Links: pyStack (BETA): http://beta.pystack.com/ pyStack Discussions: http://www.pyforum.org/ Here's where I would really need help on: I need testers, you may create your own account (or use google's integration, no google password is stored in the DB EVER if the user logs in using google auth), Currently there are several Q&A posted (many of them simple "blah blah this is a test" and others with "questionable" subjects, I'll get rid of all of that once the app is ready for "production", so please if you need any help creating an account, I can do this for you just ping me and I'll see what I can do, the forums is a nice place to put your comments since there is categories for them, sucgh as bugs, requests and general discussions, I will be updating the forum as time permits. When the system goes out of beta, I'll place a link to download the source code but for now, if you wish to take a peek at it, let me know, I am using mercurial for source control and will soon make it available in google code. thanks to all.
