> > > I have been informed in some communication with SX folks that they do > not do > > this, as a matter of policy. When they first started I guess they may > have > > done so a few times, but definitely not now. So one would have to keep > > ask.sagemath running in read-only mode or something even if this were > done > > (or lose the questions and answers forever). > > Or somebody would have to do the transferral manually ... > > The most important question -- by far -- is: > > QUESTION: Is that allowed? > > If we write a script that copies the thousands of questions from > ask.sagemath to SX, will they see us running it and ban us? Just > because they don't do the important themselves (which would be crazy > to expect them to do), doesn't mean we couldn't easily technically do > it from a database dump. > > > I didn't ask that; perhaps not. But will said script also copy all answers and comments (which often have quite useful information in them)?
Again, personally I am far from convinced that any sage.sx.com site would attract the needed activity level to move out of beta anyway. We just don't have enough views and activity compared to what they are looking for (you can check Area 51 for what I mean). - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
