New Drupal stackexchange site has been proposed

Posted by frob on June 21, 2010 at 8:02am

Stack exchange is basically a free Q/A site where professionals answer questions related to topics that have gone through a proposal system. This is a Drupal centered Stack Exchange site that is still in the defining stage. Get in quick to help shape this fledgling Drupal community.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2978/drupal-answers

Comments

Need more commiters

Posted by Chaulky on October 11, 2010 at 5:20pm

The Stack Exchange process requires a certain number of people to commit to using a site before it will be created. Right now, the Drupal Stack Exchange site is only at 34% of required commitments. Help get this site created by committing to using the site! This would be a GREAT resource to have for the Drupal community.

Eh, doesn't this forum

Posted by zack85 on October 11, 2010 at 6:40pm

Eh, doesn't this forum already serve the same purpose? People ask questions and other people answer them. Seems counter productive to have users asking/answering questions on two separate sites instead of just doing it all here.

I don't think that opening up

Posted by frob on October 12, 2010 at 8:44am

I don't think that opening up another place to ask questions is counter productive. There is discussion going on all over the web about drupal and everything else. One big point for wanting this is way that the stackexchange site works it allows the best answer to float to the top. It is a question answer format. This site (drupal.org) is a question discussion format. Huge difference.

Agreed

Posted by Chaulky on October 30, 2010 at 1:31am

I totally agree. I'm a huge fan of StackOverflow and several of the StackExchange based sites. Honestly, it's the first place I post a question about drupal. I've had a much easier time getting and finding answers on StackOverflow than in the Drupal forums. I'm sure many people have their own preference for one or the other and both would be valuable.

This proposal now has 250

Posted by digital006 on February 15, 2011 at 12:04am

This proposal now has 250 people committed to it. I strongly believe that this will benefit the community and would like to see more people getting involved with it.

Proof of concept - build our own

Posted by laura s on March 23, 2011 at 3:59pm

StackExchange has some nice features, but some things could be really improved upon, and tailored for our own needs in the Drupal community.

There is a new effort to build our own new support center (e.g., support.drupal.org?) that utilizes the best of StackExchange, but brings other needs we have into the picture (e.g., easy reference to existing issues, api docs, etc.).

http://groups.drupal.org/support-infrastructure is where this conversation is happening. http://groups.drupal.org/node/133494 addresses some of the What and Why.

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