[openstack-dev] Future of Launchpad Answers [Community]

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Thu Mar 21 17:55:36 UTC 2013


Hello folks

with http://ask.openstack.org rolling we need to decide what to do with 
Launchpad Answers. These are referenced as 'Technical Support' inside 
pages like https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Project_Resources like for 
example, for Nova, swift, ecc:

Answers (tech support): https://answers.launchpad.net/nova
Answers (tech support): https://answers.launchpad.net/swift

I know that Answers has interesting features, like it allows for a 
question to become a bug very easily. On the other hand, Launchpad UI is 
bad and from what we hear, Launchpad Answers itself doesn't have a 
bright future ahead.

I would suggest that we don't promote the use of Answers anymore and use 
Ask OpenStack instead, with specific tags. If we really need the 
Question-to-bug functionality we can always develop an extension to 
Askbot (the software that powers Ask OpenStack) to interoperate with 
Launchpad.

What do you think?

/stef



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