14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
10:30 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
On Oct 14, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2002(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Another suggestion:
E) Use the "xwiki" tag in generic stackoverflow questions?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xwiki
Do we really need that much bells and whistles and control? Of course,
nothing stops us from trying area51 in parallel, but I don`t see that as a
must.
Most of the answers I find are on stackoverflow and not on its sub-sites
and are generally well tagged. Plus, Google is usually in charge of finding
the answers, but navigating with SO's internal tags is good enough as well.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Eduard
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
On Oct 10, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Hamster <teunham(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but sleeping in a burrow does not improve our chances of getting 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.
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
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