On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 12:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
Ask Fedora is one of our primary user-facing support resources.
It's
reasonably successful, with over 18,000 questions, with almost 80% of
those having at least some answer. It has a small but active and
passionate community.
ask type communities can be an incredible resource for a community. I
was very active with AskUbuntu before converting to Fedora.
On the other hand, I've heard from the infrastructure team that
it's
taking an increasing amount of time just to keep the service running,
and making improvements is out of the question. We're having trouble
keeping up with things like keeping the software on the recent
version, let alone advancing new ideas.
Since this is such an important thing for users, I think we need an
improvement. I asked the community what to do
<
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/95681/ask-fedora-is-it-wor
king-and-whats-the-future/>
and the top-voted response is from the upstream author, who has
offered
to host the site for $250/month, including 6 hours of development
time.
Assuming we can make the money work out, what do you think about
this?
It is a small community when compared with AskUbuntu that has 249,575
answers. I personally found it difficult to get started with AskFedora
and have not revisited the site. I think if we make a commitment to
paying for someone to host the site that we need to make an effort to
make it easier for more users to contribute to the site.
Charles