Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

[James <purpleidea gmail com>]

On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> 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.

+1, askbot seems nice. Good idea!

James

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