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

[Randy Fay]

I don't think we can delegate any part of Drupal to something we don't
control; I think that's just a non-starter.

So for me, the issue is what we can learn from StackOverflow and friends -
they do great stuff and end up with great content. And yes, I think we
should build something on that.

Who is signing up to build it? I think it's an easy sell.

-Randy

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Dan Horning <dan.horning at planetnoc.com>wrote:

> i have to ask ... what would we actually gain by doing this - cleanup the
> various methods for finding info about a given module or theme or bug a
> little and we far surpass this suggested tool
>
> it seems that stackoverflow is driven very highly on userpoints to control
> access - which while a good thing - doesn't really fit the development model
> we have here. there are existing processes that would have to change to fit
> the suggested model. I for one am more for peer reviews and leadership staff
> assigning access than a points system that someone could rack up points and
> just get access ... what's that really do for the community - seems that
> would be great if we were just a tech help forum - awarding points for the
> users that help and giving them more access - but what's that do for drupal
> and it's community? (i know there is a potential for this to help ...)
>
> another area of issue to me is - another login ? or would it use SSO?
> do the drupal leadership users and dries have admin level control...?
>
> mostly here i just don't get what adding yet another resource (like has
> been said before) would do to help the lead devs, module + theme devs and
> just supporting drupal. if i had say -=- i'd vote against this idea
>
> --
> Dan Horning
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Victor Kane" <victorkane at gmail.com>
> > To: development at drupal.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:01:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [development] Drupal Answers: A Stackoverflow/StackExchange
> site proposal
> > I guess this is a good place to start:
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Victor Kane < victorkane at gmail.com >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Josh Koenig < josh at getpantheon.com >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Stew,
> >
> >
> > Thanks for starting this thread. This is important stuff:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2978/drupal-answers
> >
> > I want to put my support behind this proposal and explain my thinking
> > in doing so.
> >
> >
> > The Drupal community is already growing faster than Drupal's
> > infrastructure can easily support. With the release of D7 and all the
> > other associated projects getting off the ground, drupal.org is
> > increasingly often a bottleneck or blocker. We have wonderful hosts
> > from OSUOSL, but the human resources needed to develop, maintain and
> > manage our own infrastructure (which is a 24x7x365 job) are limited.
> >
> >
> > We have to pick our battles. I much would rather see energy, effort,
> > attention and money poured into continuing to improve our git and
> > module infrastructure — which is much more deeply intrinsic to the
> > health and future of the project — and accept that even though we
> > *can* build our own StackOverflow (@eaton proved this already) that
> > doesn't necessarily mean it's the best use of limited resources, or
> > the best thing for the project.
> >
> >
> > Drupal can theoretically/technically solve a lot of its own problems,
> > but I think we often suffer from a "not built here" prejudice as a
> > result. In the realm of getting good quality answers to Drupal
> > questions out to the most people possible, I can't see how a
> > StackExchange site would do anything but help. I would love to see the
> > community embrace something really cool and useful from the wider
> > Internet as a way to promote the project.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > You make a convincing argument Josh; my own gut feeling has been,
> > reading this thread, "how can we delegate something so important to
> > the Drupal Community as its own documentation to another party who may
> > or may not exist in the near/medium/long term".
> >
> >
> > Can someone inform somewhat on who these guys are? And why there and
> > not someplace else?
> >
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Finally, I should say that I *do not* think a StackExchange answers
> > site replaces anything. It's not an issue queue, and it's not a
> > replacement for the dialogue that exist in the forums. I would say
> > it's a new resource, something that can help the 10s of 1000s of
> > people who will be trying to wrap their mind around Drupal in the
> > coming year.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > -josh
>



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Randy Fay
Drupal Module and Site Development
randy at randyfay.com
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