"Discourse" is looking another "partner" site to run and test their software. Not sure if this is worth a look or not. It's not the Q&A format that's been discussed so far, but it sure looks very modern and interesting...
http://www.discourse.org/ On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM, matt j. sorenson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > An anecdote on re: manpower applied to a theoretical ASF-hosted > alternative > > > > I've been a participant of and observer to the Drupal open source > community > > for nearly a decade. Drupal version 7 was released, I believe, in March > > 2011. Drupal.org, the canonical destination for contributions to drupal > > along with user forums, and issue queues for contributed projects, is > > offline *today* (Halloween 2013), because after ~1.5 years of effort, the > > site is finally ready to be upgraded from 6 to 7... all while most > > Drupalers are anticipating the major version 8 release. > > > > Why the anecdote? There are troves and hoardes of information and > > discussions in hundreds of thousands of lengthy pages within 'D.O.'... > > anyone who has performed work on a drupal build out knows that end of the > > day feeling of having 47 D.O. tabs open to modules and offensively long > > issue pages (to issues unresolved sometimes for years) and forum > > discussions, trying to pinpoint the cause and fix for some odd unexpected > > behavior. > > > > But there is also, now, and for some time, a drupal.stackexchange site. > And > > I am finding more and more that the SE site is of increasing value. > Better > > quality questions and answers, and more often than not... answers above > the > > fold :D > > > > That's not to say that algorithms to float the more useful content of > D.O. > > up and sink all the noise to the bottom of the sea (sorry, Robert) could > > not be implemented some day... but, would the Drupal infra team tackle > that > > before or after the upgrade to Drupal 8?! > > > > Just wanted to fill in some of the background re: my perspective > > --Matt > > > > > I don't want to discuss the quality of the answer you can find on a stack > exchange inc website. Stack overflow generate a lot of noise for sure, and > it's really difficult to find valuable and deeper information among the > noise it generates in the search engines but it's not the thing I want to > discuss here. > > Also I don't buy the argument of "there are more people on SO". One true > thing is that most are here too even if you had to register. Simply reusing > your email could also work as your login, you don't need more. > > But I don't want to enter in such considerations yet. It's kind of > premature. > > To be clear I am looking for a tool to handle QA that can be controlled by > the community: the content license, the way you can extend it... It > appeared to me that OSQA could have been a good way to do it. From the > discussion I can see a list of questions we should ask before choosing it > > - How it can scale? > - Which scale do we need ? > - Is it easy to manage it? > > I would also be interesting to know what people are expecting from such > tool, which kind of features. Then we could probably list some solutions > and poll everyone here about what they want even if these solutions are > proprietary, based on some laws nobody really want etc. > > Just asking anyway. > > - benoit >
