On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Martin Scharrer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > after having a great experience with other stackexchange sites and > realizing that creating one is free > and unproblematic as long it has enough followers I went ahead and > proposed one for users and developers of trac and trac-hacks: > > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29097/trac?referrer=8ehXQKME89PVbTGWoHuajg2 > > I think Trac and its plugins have a wide enough user and developer > community to justify an own stackexchange site. > > A stackexchange site is a question & answer site where people can vote > both on questions and answers. Just like stackoverflow.com. > This way correct answers and important questions are clearly marked by > the community. > I find it a very good addition to mailing-lists with many benefits, e.g. > it provides a nice layout, is open and community based and the answers > are normally highly ranked by Google. Just to name a few. > > Operating this site will be free, all posts are placed under the open > cc-wiki licence and are openly accessible. Its maintainers can be > elected democratically by the users. Users will own reputation (points) > through up-votes by other users, which unlocks advanced features. This > is a great protection against spam-bots and forum trolls. > > **In order* to allow this proposal to go from the 'Definition' stage > into the next at least *50 people* have to /follow/ it and at least 5 > on-topic and 5 off-topic example questions have to be entered and voted > on. Every person can enter max. 5 example questions, what I already did. > I would like to ask you to do this in order to support this proposal. > > > Best Regards, > Martin Scharrer
My concern is that it would fragment where you find questions and answers. Unless the Trac project itself wants to adopt this, I find it of lessor value. Meaning if I were to go to TEO and look for support options and it was listed and supported by TEO, then I would say it's of more value. Matt P. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en.
