On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:57:40AM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Perhaps. I don't think Fedora has invested much in terms of growing the user community. Our investments have almost always been contributor focused and as I have highlighted before, without a user community, it is unlikely we will continue to grow as a project. If someone wants to go
I agree that it's important, and I think some sort of QA site is a key piece. I just think that HyperKitty is more important right now (and also helps with the user community part). I think we really need to focus on getting that (and, as mentioned, Taskotron) into production, and once that's going we can build up other parts too.
the StackExchange route, it is feasible to do a cost evaluation of the move vs implementing the features we need in Askbot. We are not competing with StackExchange overall and don't need all of what they provide to satisfy our requirements and I think there are benefits to sticking with Askbot in terms of I18N, customization etc.
Well, and software freedom.
We don't need to clone Stack Exchange, but in order to be successful in a similar way, we're _really_ far away. The entire notification system needs to be rebuilt. Same with flagging and moderation in general. This is a lot of work.