Couldn't agree more with the overhead maintenance considerations. The audience hit is also kind of a big problem and you are right about the general `php` questions people tend to mark `cakephp` since that's the framework they're using. Having agreed with your considerations I can now say that I am against a stack sub-site. Also I think it is a good idea to keep redirecting ask.cakephp.org to the stack tag. :) This way stack will also become kind of a repository of answers to problems. Interesting questions tend to arise but very rarely.
Borislav. On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 12:35:22 UTC+3, AD7six wrote: > > 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.
