Open Stack

All good, Jermey, I was just offering to add support/help. I work for an
Openstack company here in Canada, just putting my hand up to help out :) I
don't see a cohesive end user/community "home", I could be wrong and happy
to be if I am not seeing it. IRC is problematic in that it requires a
persistent connection, there is no "record" if you are disconnected, for
you to see an answer to your question, for example.

Perhaps I can ask you, is the current system working? If so, I will pop
back into my box.

Cheers
Michael

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 3:35 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2023-01-31 19:21:06 -0500 (-0500), Michael Knox wrote:
> > I would be happy to contribute and maintain. If that's the ask.
>
> The offer is appreciated, but you'll need top clarify what you mean
> by "maintain" in that case. Are you offering to install and run the
> service? And for how many years can you commit to doing that?
>
> > mailing lists and IRC are not overly useful, 24 hours in
> > #openstack is just people connecting and disconnecting.
>
> This is actually an example of why the past web forum attempts never
> worked out. Users are told to go ask questions in the #openstack
> channel, where few people with answers have any incentive to hang
> out, so it's unsurprising that you at best hear crickets there. This
> mailing list is a converged communication channel also used by
> people working on the software, and so I see far more questions
> posted here getting answered as a result.
>
> > There is a great community here and the user support is fragmented.
>
> People are also already asking and sometimes answering questions on
> StackOverflow, Reddit, Slack, and so on. Adding a web forum on top
> of the existing options for places to ask questions seems likely to
> lead to even more fragmentation (perhaps you have suggestions for
> how to address that challenge?). I apologize if I seem overly
> skeptical, but after more than a decade of trying things and then
> seeing people propose the same things that didn't work before, I've
> become quite cautious of such offers.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>
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