[development] Proposal: Move all dev support off this list to new StackExchange site

[Victor Kane]

+1 Earnie

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> Randy Fay wrote:
> > The new http://drupal.stackexchange.com is now live, and several
> outstanding
> > Drupal contributors are monitoring and contributing to it.
> >
> > It seems like we'd get better long-term use of people's time if we did
> > development support over there, where it's searchable, and where repeat
> > questions can be answered by an internet search instead of everybody
> reading
> > and answering the same thing over and over.
> >
>
> Surely you must be dreaming to think that people who would use
> stackexchange to do the searching will be more than those who search the
> searchable list archives.
>
> > And yes, I'm in favor of providing this capability on Drupal.org, as per
> > http://drupal.org/node/1047632, but for now, what about taking dev
> support
> > off this list since there's such a good alternative?
> >
>
> Hasn't this been discussed on this list before?  Oh, yes back in
> February, here is an example of how searchable this list is
> http://www.google.com/search?q=stackexchage+site%3Adrupal.org.  My
> preference is and will always be an email list instead of some online
> form.  That doesn't mean the online support forum isn't any more or less
> good.
>
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> Earnie
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