On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 10, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Hamster <teun...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> vmassol wrote >>>> Can you explain what you mean exactly? :) >>> >>> Why don't "we" open a "XWiki Site" and start posting all our questions >>> there? >>> >>> Nothing ventured, nothing gained… >> >> Because as it's mentioned, it's not easy. People will vote in Area51 and >> only the most requested will be open. >> > > Yes, but sleeping in a burrow does not improve our chances of getting more > visibility of the project, does it? Neither does creating our own new > underground establishment. If we plan on moving or doing anything in this > direction, maybe the "forest" is where the action happens :) I see 3 main reasons to move away from a mailing list for the users list: 1) Make it extra easy for users to post a question without being registered 2) Provide visibility for those who answer questions (i.e. earn points and rankings) and as a consequence especially who are the experts 3) Allow closing topics to know which one do not have a satisfactory answer so that people who wish to help know which threads they can help on IMO those are our main 3 use cases. Then we can evaluate the options we have to fill those use cases: A) Try to get a site on area51 B) Install a stackoverflow clone in our infrastructure (see http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones) C) Develop a solution based on XWiki D) Other I don't like A) because the chances to get it is about 0.1% and even more important I strongly dislike the way they manage stackoverflow (I'm not able to provide answers to questions because at one point in the past I answered a question by sending a user to a URL that gave the exact answer to his question)… As a result this prevented me about 4-5 times from answering a question for which I knew the answer… There's also the question of not owning our own data. C) is a lot of work but it could be possible because Jeremie is working on a use case relatively close to it. And the "eat our dog food" is quite nice and we can learn stuff in the process. XWiki fits nicely with the use case of a "Q&A site" IMO. It should be relatively easy to start with a simple QA app and progressively enhance it. The "easiest" is probably B). For fun I'm trying http://bitnami.com/stack/osqa locally. Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
