21 Mar
2011
21 Mar
'11
3:11 p.m.
One thing that I find really great and I would be totally in favor of doing something
similar for xwiki.org:
"
Amass enough reputation points and Area 51 grant you additional privileges:
25 Propose example questions
50 Create proposals
50 Vote for questions as great examples
50 Flag proposals or example questions
50 Leave comments on example questions
150 Vote for questions as not a good example
250 Vote to close or reopen your proposals
1000 Edit other people's proposals and example questions
2000 Vote to close or reopen any proposal
10000 Delete questions and closed proposals; access to moderation tools
"
Let's see what we could come up with (imaginary scale I have no idea how easy/hard
points are awarded by answering questions):
* 5000 allowed to add one issue to the roadmap for the next release ;)
* 50 ability to contribute a project in contrib repo
* 10000 ability to vote on project directions (binding votes)
* 100 right to close issues on jira
* 250 ability to get one's own free wiki on myxwiki.org (would be kind of cool I think
- especially since it'll prove community interaction and thus the ability to ask the
community for myxwiki support)
I'm sure we can find lots more.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Andreas Hahn wrote:
Am 14.03.2011 09:16, schrieb Vincent Massol:
[snip]
Well, stackoverflow.com is one global site for all questions, it's not a tool you can
install or host.
It's part of stackexchange which is list of Q&A sites.
FYI, I've contacted the guys just to check what is the process to get such a site and
here's their answer:
"
All of our sites are created through a process we call Area 51. It is the staging area to
propose Stack Exchange sites to the community and, if it gains enough support, we create
the site. Stack Exchange sites can only be created via the democratic, community-driven
process at Area 51. You can read more about that process here:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq.
"
Thanks
-Vincent
On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:00 PM, Andreas Hahn
wrote:
For my own FOSS project I'm hoping to start soon - I'll be going with
http://stackoverflow.com. Providing support means checking the site for tagged questions a
couple of times a day. It's just one mouse click. For me it makes no real difference
in getting mails or checking a forum as long as you have a one-click list of open topics.
Am 10.03.2011 17:39, schrieb Paul Libbrecht:
> Please contradict me!
Paul,
actually - how could I do this ?
I'm not an expert in forum software so I'd to go for the naive approach
- comparing features e.t.c.
I was hoping for some insight that it is beneficial for the whole
project to encourage users first to browse and then to participate -
even if it means for you and the others around here to give up beloved
habits.
Anyway - I'm not going to push you guys back to the future of Web 2.0.
Given the lame participation when compared to the survey 4 years ago it
seems to me that quite some people have already left the boat and it may
not matter anymore.
I'm not sure how to read your last 2 paragraphs.
Just note that fro my POV there's no "you" and "me" here.
There's only a global community and you're part of it. That said at some point
some people are going to need to work to make it happen, this is where the distinction
will happen. How far are you willing to help? Maybe a first step would be that you help
find either a forum software that fits the bill or a hosted service that would work for
us.
From the people who answered so far my feeling is
that:
* people seem to agree in general that at least for users a forum would be
nicer
* since xwiki committers provide a substantial amount of answers to the user list as of
today it would be nice that they can continue to have the information coming to me