Re: Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin
I notice that right now we need 5 karma to up vote so there's a bit of a catch-22 for the up voting to start. I think right now it's up to the admin to get a pool of users to break the catch-22. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Taras Glek tg...@mozilla.com wrote: Hi, A few people noticed that we do not have a nice, searchable knowledge base for Gecko tech. We have places to ask questions such as various newsgroups, irc and places to document things like the wikis. It is hard to search through all of that, so questions get repeated. Lets give ask.mozilla.org a try. If you see someone asking questions on IRC or newsgroups, please ask them to write the question on ask.m.o and answer it there. If the answer is already documented elsewhere, provide a link in the answer or duplicate it, up to you. See http://ask.mozilla.org/question/3/why-use- askmozillaorg/?answer=4#post-id-4 for more info :) If you would like to help customize the theme and admin* this, please ping me. Taras * You only get admin rights if I know you ** Please note, this is a tech preview to get a feel if people will appreciate this. If we find this service to be useful, we'll invest more into this(eg SSL, custom theme, persona login, etc) ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin
Gave some karma out. Thanks Benoit Girard mailto:bgir...@mozilla.com Tuesday, February 4, 2014 14:49 I notice that right now we need 5 karma to up vote so there's a bit of a catch-22 for the up voting to start. I think right now it's up to the admin to get a pool of users to break the catch-22. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Taras Glek tg...@mozilla.com wrote: A few people noticed that we do not have a nice, searchable knowledge base for Gecko tech. We have places to ask questions such as various newsgroups, irc and places to document things like the wikis. It is hard to search through all of that, so questions get repeated. Lets give ask.mozilla.org a try. If you see someone asking questions on IRC or newsgroups, please ask them to write the question on ask.m.o and answer it there. If the answer is already documented elsewhere, provide a link in the answer or duplicate it, up to you. FWIW, Chris Leary started up something very much like this for SpiderMonkey a couple of years. I can't find it now, and maybe it doesn't even exist any more. I remember that there was a flurry of activity at first, but eventually activity died down and it became moribund. Nick ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin
On 2/4/14, 3:33 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Taras Glek tg...@mozilla.com wrote: A few people noticed that we do not have a nice, searchable knowledge base for Gecko tech. We have places to ask questions such as various newsgroups, irc and places to document things like the wikis. It is hard to search through all of that, so questions get repeated. Lets give ask.mozilla.org a try. If you see someone asking questions on IRC or newsgroups, please ask them to write the question on ask.m.o and answer it there. If the answer is already documented elsewhere, provide a link in the answer or duplicate it, up to you. FWIW, Chris Leary started up something very much like this for SpiderMonkey a couple of years. I can't find it now, and maybe it doesn't even exist any more. I remember that there was a flurry of activity at first, but eventually activity died down and it became moribund. This tool (or something very similar to it) needs to thrive. From experience, there are dozens, possibly hundreds of times this tool could have prevented me from asking an already-been-asked question on IRC or mailing lists. I can't begin to associate a dollar amount with how time-consuming reading and responding to these redundant questions is. Multiply that by 1,000 contributors. By 10,000 (1M Mozillians, right?). Here is my pledge that I encourage others to adopt: 1) Why asking a question, author the question on ask.mozilla.org and paste the link (possibly along with minimal context) into IRC. 2) Answer questions on ask.mozilla.org instead of IRC. 3) Encourage others to do the same. Once we have a knowledge base, we can move on to other rad ideas, such as cpeterson's: imagine an askbot-bot that, when it sees questions on IRC, it searches for likely ask.mozilla.org posts and drops the link in channel. Yes, please. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin
Hi, A few people noticed that we do not have a nice, searchable knowledge base for Gecko tech. We have places to ask questions such as various newsgroups, irc and places to document things like the wikis. It is hard to search through all of that, so questions get repeated. Lets give ask.mozilla.org a try. If you see someone asking questions on IRC or newsgroups, please ask them to write the question on ask.m.o and answer it there. If the answer is already documented elsewhere, provide a link in the answer or duplicate it, up to you. See http://ask.mozilla.org/question/3/why-use-askmozillaorg/?answer=4#post-id-4 for more info :) If you would like to help customize the theme and admin* this, please ping me. Taras * You only get admin rights if I know you ** Please note, this is a tech preview to get a feel if people will appreciate this. If we find this service to be useful, we'll invest more into this(eg SSL, custom theme, persona login, etc) ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
