On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:24, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote:
> A forum is almost always the wrong solution when we talk about a > developer/technical subject. In my experience it always ended up > fragmenting the community between developers (who don't read the forums) > and users (who don't read the rest). Agreed. I don't know of any technical forums that are really worth visiting. > The solution for your problem is not a forum. It's a stackexchange-type > site. Then questions can be edited, de-duplicated and the good answer > wins, with a karma-based meritocracy that ensures self-administration. As weird as this may be, karma-based systems seem to be rather effective as gathering karma becomes a goal in and as of itself. As long as that improves the overall experience, there is nothing wrong with this, though. > So my suggestion is: > Set up a stackexchange-type site, drop LP Answers. Alternatively, stackexchange itself could be used. Personally, I don't care either way about the implementation; the underlying concept are what counts. Richard _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp