I guess this is a good place to start: http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Victor Kane <victork...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Josh Koenig <j...@getpantheon.com> wrote: > >> Stew, >> >> Thanks for starting this thread. This is important stuff: >> >> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2978/drupal-answers >> >> I want to put my support behind this proposal and explain my thinking in >> doing so. >> >> The Drupal community is already growing faster than Drupal's >> infrastructure can easily support. With the release of D7 and all the other >> associated projects getting off the ground, drupal.org is increasingly >> often a bottleneck or blocker. We have wonderful hosts from OSUOSL, but the >> human resources needed to develop, maintain and manage our own >> infrastructure (which is a 24x7x365 job) are limited. >> >> We have to pick our battles. I much would rather see energy, effort, >> attention and money poured into continuing to improve our git and module >> infrastructure — which is much more deeply intrinsic to the health and >> future of the project — and accept that even though we *can* build our own >> StackOverflow (@eaton proved this already) that doesn't necessarily mean >> it's the best use of limited resources, or the best thing for the project. >> >> Drupal can theoretically/technically solve a lot of its own problems, but >> I think we often suffer from a "not built here" prejudice as a result. In >> the realm of getting good quality answers to Drupal questions out to the >> most people possible, I can't see how a StackExchange site would do anything >> but help. I would love to see the community embrace something really cool >> and useful from the wider Internet as a way to promote the project. >> >> > You make a convincing argument Josh; my own gut feeling has been, reading > this thread, "how can we delegate something so important to the Drupal > Community as its own documentation to another party who may or may not exist > in the near/medium/long term". > > Can someone inform somewhat on who these guys are? And why there and not > someplace else? > > Victor > > >> Finally, I should say that I *do not* think a StackExchange answers site >> replaces anything. It's not an issue queue, and it's not a replacement for >> the dialogue that exist in the forums. I would say it's a new resource, >> something that can help the 10s of 1000s of people who will be trying to >> wrap their mind around Drupal in the coming year. >> >> Cheers >> -josh >> > >
