On 31 Jan 2011 15h45 WET, shellmultime...@gmail.com wrote: > [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:18 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 >> > > I would much prefer to see this on drupal.org as others have > mentioned. It's not like it would be _that_ hard to do with Views > and a few other contrib. Just needs someone with a bit of time to > make it happen.
Agreed. I confess that I don't dwell in the d.o forums, I guess the issue queue is the placeholder for somethings like StackExchange. It can be improved and made more to the image of SE. Outsourcing the support to SE is a disastrous move in marketing terms. It's implicitly admitting that we don't know howto or we're not keen on creating a venue for quality discussion on d.o. beyond the issue queue comments. We have also to consider other competing projects. WP has user forums, and it's a CMS oriented towards blogging. Drupal has had foruns since the beginning. Are we throwing the towel and saying we can't fix it? --- appa
