Personally I don't see the benefit of a subsite, compared to what's available already on stackoverflow.com.
There are some rather significant disadvantages to using a subsite instead of a tag, including: - Reduces the audience - Participants have to "opt in" rather than simply browse stack overflow - The framework is less visible to non-framework users - Requires maintenance, especially to migrate questions from stackoverflow to subsite and vice versa (an ongoing overhead) For example: questions frequently appear on stack over flow of the form: > I need to do <something common to any php install> - I'm using CakePHP. Whereas on stackoverflow answers can come from outside the cakephp community or the question can simply be edited/tagged appropriate - on a subsite the question is invisible to a more appropriate audience (those looking at the php tag on stack overflow) and is effectively off topic on the subsite. It would be appropriate to have a subsite where questions were considered in some way offtopic on stackoverflow - but that's not the case for CakePHP. AD On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 09:50:38 UTC+2, Florian Krämer wrote: > > I think the CakePHP tag is good enough. It is not like there is not > already enough to maintain and care about, so if a dedicated stack exchange > site takes more resources of any kind don't do it and stay with the tag. > > On Friday, July 5, 2013 4:21:29 AM UTC+2, mark_story wrote: >> >> A dedicated stackexchange would be great. They take a fair bit of work / >> community votes to make happen though. That is one reason we're just using >> the cakephp tag right now. >> >> -Mark >> >> On Thursday, 27 June 2013 20:43:38 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> [Cross posting this on CakePHP Facebook Group >>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/cake.community/] >>> >>> Hello everybody >>> >>> I came across an idea which I wanted to share with and hope to spark >>> some discussion. >>> Probably - or better said for sure - I'm not even the first one having >>> it. >>> >>> First some back story: >>> >>> As you may know CakePHP's Question & Answer site >>> http://ask.cakephp.org/redirects nowadays to "cakephp" tagged questions on >>> stackoverflow.com. >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakephp >>> >>> I haven't seen any official statement about that from the development >>> team but the Wayback Machine could crawl the page the last time on >>> 09.05.2013. >>> >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20130509084040/http://ask.cakephp.org >>> >>> The CakePHP Questions site before that, http://www.cakeqs.org/(nowadays a >>> japanese blog), was last seen on 02.10.2010. >>> Any later request got redirected to http://ask.cakephp.org/. >>> >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20101002085134/http://cakeqs.org/ >>> >>> So back to the idea... >>> >>> Recently I came accross one of the many domain/topic specific sub sites >>> of stackoverflow.com. >>> >>> http://stackexchange.com/sites#technology >>> >>> For example "Drupal Answers". >>> >>> http://drupal.stackexchange.com/ >>> >>> And I thought "Hey wouldn't it be nicer to redirect CakePHP's Questions >>> & Answers site to something like this instead of just the tagged with >>> "cakephp" site?". >>> >>> Like I said I'm not the first one, so this is rather a follow-up on a >>> three years old idea, which time hadn't come yet. >>> >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cake-php/stackexchange/cake-php/pA7q6gddW74/aaCntQer_jEJ >>> >>> But I think the time is now right. >>> What do you think? >>> Should we open a proposal for http://cakephp.stackexchange.com/ called >>> "CakePHP Questions & Answers" or something like this? >>> >>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq >>> >>> I personally think it would strengthen the CakePHP brand even further... >>> >>> Greetings from Switzerland >>> Marc >>> >> -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
