On May 4, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Everett Toews wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jordan Rinke <jor...@openstack.org> wrote: > Because there is still debate over a forum or a QnA site I will wait to see > what the decision is tomorrow before making any demo sites for review. The > problem still is that the QnA solves a different issue, it provides a means > to answer very specific questions not a realm for discussion. A user forum > allows people to ask questions which require discussion and may have various > trade offs. Not just "how do I get a list of all running instances using the > euca2ools" which would be a great QnA question but questions like "How do I > HA my mySQL DB for Nova" a question that will involve discussion, multiple > potential answers based on their configuration and have trade offs depending > on what they are wanting. There will be no specifically right answer. I think > a number of people are failing to fully understand that not everyone is a > developer and not everyone has the understanding to ask a very specific and > provably solved question, and that not all questions are even specifically > solvable but that the discussion around those provides valuable information > for the community. > > Agreed, QnA sites are not designed for discussion just as forums are not > designed for QnA. There's actually a pretty succinct answer about it at > http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36818/would-you-recommend-stack-exchange-sites-vs-other-types-of-forum
On Area 51 they use the QnA format to do discussions. If you click "create new discussion" on a proposal, it's equivalent to asking a question on a Stack Exchange site. Here's an example discussion question from the computational science Area 51 proposal: http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/questions/320/shall-we-unite-computational-science-proposals Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist USC Information Sciences Institute 703.812.3710 http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin
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