[development] Drupal Answers: A Stackoverflow/StackExchange site proposal

[Carl Wiedemann]

Recently the Vote Up/Down module http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down was
implemented on groups.drupal.org in an effort to provide some sense of each
post's value to the community. Integrating Vote Up/Down with drupal.org's
existing forum could be a next step.

Stack Overflow's architecture translated to Drupal bespeaks a content type,
comments, free-tagging taxomony, vote up/down, Views and a few other things
(notifications/subscriptions, statistics, flags, etc). Some effort in has
already been put toward emulating it: http://drupal.org/project/arrayshift


On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Randy Fay <randy at randyfay.com> wrote:

> However, providing a venue for support that actually works is something we
> really need to set as a high priority.
>
> IMO we could just use issue queues, organized just like you might on Stack
> Overflow, with owners of them. Email notifications would work.
> Maintainership of a particular queue would work (subscribe to the whole
> queue). It fits in with our normal workflow. It moves pure support out of
> the issue queues at least some of the time. And we know it works because we
> do it all the time.
>
> So I would envision an "Installation Support" issue queue (project), and a
> "Site Configuration Support" issue queue, etc. Each with a maintainer or 3.
>
> Surely we can do something like that to get away from the hell that is the
> forums.
>
> Probably the place for this discussion is over at
> http://groups.drupal.org/documentation-team, but I don't mind seeing it go
> on here for a little bit.
>
> -Randy
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Cameron Eagans <cweagans at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think that using Stack Overflow for support is a bad idea.
>>
>> I'd much rather see us build a clone of Stack Overflow to put on
>> Drupal.org than keep a major support venue offsite.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:05, Ronald Ashri <ronald at istos.it> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the stackexchange for Drupal would be a good thing (validates
>>> the size and relevancy of Drupal for developers in the big world out
>>> there) but it should not be considered a replacement for d.o. forums.
>>> Drupal.org needs to be self-sustainable - this validates Drupal's
>>> ability to cater, on its own, for its community.
>>>
>>> ronald.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Stewart Robinson <stewsnooze at 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
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Randy Fay
> Drupal Module and Site Development
> randy at randyfay.com
> +1  970.462.7450
>
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