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 ---- On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:35:05 -0500 Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> wrote ----
 > Yes! ask.openstack.org is no fun to attempt to be helpful on (see
 > e-mail notification issues, etc.).
 > 

+1 on making it RO and redirect users to StackOverflow or ML(fast response)..


 > I would like to ask that we put together some sort of guide and/or
 > guidence for how to use stack overflow efficiently for OpenStack
 > questions. I.e. some well known or defined tags that we recommend
 > people use when asking questions. This would be similar to the tags we
 > use for the openstack discuss list.
 > 
 > I see that there is already a trend for "openstack-nova"
 > "openstack-horizon", etc. This works for me.

In FC SIG, we check a set of tags for new contributors in ask.o.o [1] which we can switch to do in StackOverflow.
Similarly, we can start monitoring the popular tags for project/area-specific.

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG#Biweekly_Homework

-gmann

 > 
 > This way we can setup notifications for these tags and be much more
 > efficient at getting people answers.
 > 
 > Thanks Thierry for moving this forward!
 > 
 > Michael
 > 
 > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 5:10 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > On 2020-08-19 09:52:47 +1000 (+1000), Ian Wienand wrote:
 > > [...]
 > > > *If* we were to restore it now, it looks like 0.11 branch comes with
 > > > an upstream Dockerfile [1]; there's lots of examples now in
 > > > system-config of similar container-based production sites and this
 > > > could fit in.
 > > >
 > > > This makes it significantly easier than trying to build up everything
 > > > it requires from scratch, and if upstream keep their container
 > > > compatible (a big if...) theoretically less work to keep updated.
 > > [...]
 > >
 > > Which also brings up another point: right now we're running it on
 > > Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS) which is scheduled to reach EOL early next
 > > year, and the tooling we're using to deploy it isn't going to work
 > > on newer Ubuntu releases. Even keeping it up in a read-only state is
 > > timebound to how long we can safely keep its server online. If we
 > > switch ask.openstack.org to read-only now, I would still plan to
 > > turn it off entirely on or before April 1, 2021.
 > > --
 > > Jeremy Stanley
 > 
 >