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

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Thu Mar 28 22:28:48 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>wrote:

> On 03/27/2013 12:08 AM, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
>
>> Personally I'm in favour of the full import into Ask. That leaves a
>> legacy of information to go back on. The voting for the best answer
>> isn't entirely necessary in my view - over time the voting will come in
>> from people who found the information useful.
>>
>
> This makes sense indeed. Atul was thinking of copying over 'manually' the
> best/most recent ones. I have no idea of what makes more sense, I guess it
> depends on the quantity of questions that are worth moving over.
>
>
>  On 26 March 2013 17:40, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>     That makes it certainly possible to select questions ('Answered' ones
>> ?)
>>     and import them with all comments, although proper tagging and
>> selection
>>     of best answer would be missing... requiring some editorial pass
>>     afterwards.
>>
>
> Atul: what do you think?
>
>
>      Alternatively, we can just keep LP answers going for selected projects
>>     that made good use of them.
>>
>
> I advice strongly against this. LP has a pretty bad UI, mandates a LP
> login, the product is probably not going to be developed further and most
> of all using different tools will split a nascent community of users now
> that we're increasing the efforts to strengthen it. Let's move the good
> content to Ask and use that.
>

I'm with Stefano on this item.My vote is for changeover with editorial
pass. Let's a avoid seeing people ask a question about where to post their
question.

Hopefully that works for you John - so people won't ask to ask, they'll
just ask. :)
Anne

>
> /stef
>
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