On 31 Jan 2011 15h45 WET, shellmultimedia@gmail.com wrote:
[1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Stewart Robinson <stewsnooze@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
There has been some chatter on Twitter concerning the future of the forums on drupal.org.
I don't want to relight any code wars on keeping it in house or using external solutions but......
Here is a well supported stackexchange proposal to provide Drupal answers. I think this would be an ideal replacement for the Drupal.org forums.
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2978/drupal-answers
Please offer your support and commitment to the stackexchange site so we can help new users more efficiently.
Any opinions?
Stewart Robinson @stewsnooze
I would much prefer to see this on drupal.org as others have mentioned. It's not like it would be _that_ hard to do with Views and a few other contrib. Just needs someone with a bit of time to make it happen.
Agreed. I confess that I don't dwell in the d.o forums, I guess the issue queue is the placeholder for somethings like StackExchange. It can be improved and made more to the image of SE. Outsourcing the support to SE is a disastrous move in marketing terms. It's implicitly admitting that we don't know howto or we're not keen on creating a venue for quality discussion on d.o. beyond the issue queue comments. We have also to consider other competing projects. WP has user forums, and it's a CMS oriented towards blogging. Drupal has had foruns since the beginning. Are we throwing the towel and saying we can't fix it? --- appa