Recently the Vote Up/Down module http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down was implemented on groups.drupal.org in an effort to provide some sense of each post's value to the community. Integrating Vote Up/Down with drupal.org's existing forum could be a next step.
Stack Overflow's architecture translated to Drupal bespeaks a content type, comments, free-tagging taxomony, vote up/down, Views and a few other things (notifications/subscriptions, statistics, flags, etc). Some effort in has already been put toward emulating it: http://drupal.org/project/arrayshift On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Randy Fay <ra...@randyfay.com> wrote: > However, providing a venue for support that actually works is something we > really need to set as a high priority. > > IMO we could just use issue queues, organized just like you might on Stack > Overflow, with owners of them. Email notifications would work. > Maintainership of a particular queue would work (subscribe to the whole > queue). It fits in with our normal workflow. It moves pure support out of > the issue queues at least some of the time. And we know it works because we > do it all the time. > > So I would envision an "Installation Support" issue queue (project), and a > "Site Configuration Support" issue queue, etc. Each with a maintainer or 3. > > Surely we can do something like that to get away from the hell that is the > forums. > > Probably the place for this discussion is over at > http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team, but I don't mind seeing it go > on here for a little bit. > > -Randy > > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Cameron Eagans <cweag...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think that using Stack Overflow for support is a bad idea. >> >> I'd much rather see us build a clone of Stack Overflow to put on >> Drupal.org than keep a major support venue offsite. >> >> Thanks, >> Cameron >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:05, Ronald Ashri <ron...@istos.it> wrote: >> >>> I think the stackexchange for Drupal would be a good thing (validates >>> the size and relevancy of Drupal for developers in the big world out >>> there) but it should not be considered a replacement for d.o. forums. >>> Drupal.org needs to be self-sustainable - this validates Drupal's >>> ability to cater, on its own, for its community. >>> >>> ronald. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Stewart Robinson <stewsno...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > There has been some chatter on Twitter concerning the future of the >>> > forums on drupal.org. >>> > >>> > I don't want to relight any code wars on keeping it in house or using >>> > external solutions but...... >>> > >>> > Here is a well supported stackexchange proposal to provide Drupal >>> > answers. I think this would be an ideal replacement for the Drupal.org >>> > forums. >>> > >>> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2978/drupal-answers >>> > >>> > Please offer your support and commitment to the stackexchange site so >>> > we can help new users more efficiently. >>> > >>> > Any opinions? >>> > >>> > Stewart Robinson >>> > @stewsnooze >>> > >>> >> >> > > > -- > Randy Fay > Drupal Module and Site Development > ra...@randyfay.com > +1 970.462.7450 > >
