There is a point, perhaps a line in the sand, where "Eat your own Dog Food"
becomes 'isolationism'.
I'm for a Stack Overflow solution. It involves monumentally less resources
from us. It puts us solidly in touch with another community on the interwebs.
It works.
I prefer forums for forum-like discussions. Support discussions on forums are
annoying.
I prefer issue queues for development, as they are good for managing ongoing
development and archiving past development.
I prefer a Stack Overflow for support because they are a meritocracy based,
self-sorting, self documenting system.
These are three different things, and I think we gain more than just a solution
to our own problems by going th Stack Overflow route.
Sam Tresler
646-246-8403
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Josh Koenig wrote:
However, if a project is formed on d.o to create an "EntityUnderrun"
install profile, I'll be one of the first to revoke my commit on
StackExchange.
Justin
Not to undercut my own argument for why a StackExchange site would be nice,
but this already exists:
http://drupal.org/project/arrayshift
And, as far as it goes, this isn't very difficult to do:
http://engineeredweb.com/blog/09/11/building-stack-overflow-clone-drupal-part-1
However, the value to me is that nobody has to write any code for us to use
StackOverflow, people are already using it, it reaches an audience outside
the normal *.drupal.org sphere, and it will keep getting better as the
general StackExchange platform gets better.
If it really takes off and people decide to build a viable clone on
something.drupal.org, we can easily migrate the Q&A data. They make it all
available as dumps or via API and user contributions are Creative Commons
licensed:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/
-j
