Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

[Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> wrote:
> On 06/20/2013 12:33 PM, Étienne BERSAC wrote:
> > Did you have already such proposition or plan ? Would you like to open a
> > ask.gnome.org for developers ?
> Would this be similar to Stackoverflow?
> I there anything we could use as a base if we were to set something up on
> the GNOME servers?

The Stack exchange software (used by Stack overflow) is proprietary. I
think Ubuntu used to have their instance hosted there.

There is AskBot (http://askbot.org/) which is a free software
alternative. It seems to be used by Fedora
(https://ask.fedoraproject.org/) and we could run that on our servers.

Solace (http://opensource.plurk.com/solace/) is another possibility.

> We could possibly just point people to
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome-3 or
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome

Relying on a third party hosted, non free software tool when there is
a viable free software alternative doesn't seem very in line with the
GNOME philosophy.

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Alexandre Franke