Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
I do not disagree with you on this. I also know we don't have a
larger
number of system administrators, servers and time to do all the things
many community members 'expect a project to have'. We have the
resources to do one set of things excellently, two well, and three or
more poorly. The problem is that everyone seems to want 3 or more
things from us which combinatoric-ally end up being massive. We can
either not offer those items, outsource them, or do them poorly and
shut it down like everything from asterisk to various previous forum
attempts.
I personally would prefer if the world stopped moving to the 'the next
big social thing' every 6 months which needs all new tooling and
setup.. but I have also learned that hasn't happened in 4000 years...
IMHO, it was a mistake to bring up
ask.fedoraproject.org to begin with. We
do not have the resources to maintain it (hence the outsourcing), and it is
yet another communication platform that is fragmenting the community. We
already had mailing lists and forums (i.e., already one platform too many).
I do not see what
ask.fedoraproject.org allows that was not already possible
with those two existing platforms. Jumping on the hype of the day "every 6
months" is just not a reasonable thing to do.
Kevin Kofler