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

[Scott Reynen]

On 1/31/11 8:45 AM, Michelle Cox wrote:

> It's not like it would be _that_ hard to do

Indeed, the lead developer of Stack Overflow says reproducing the site's 
basic functionality is trivial:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.html

But he also says that functionality is irrelevant without all of the 
other aspects of the site, which are non-trivial.

A linked article gets more into how this relates to common problems in 
open source communities focusing too much on the code and too little on 
everything else:

http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/

And that sounds a lot like what the Drupal community has been working 
hard to improve the last few years, so this might be a good opportunity 
to push that even further.

-- 
Scott Reynen
MakeDataMakeSense.com