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
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
___
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
