[simplification] Making ask.openstack.org read-only
Eugen Block
eblock at nde.ag
Thu Jan 28 11:54:13 UTC 2021
Hi,
thanks for your response and the clarification. I guess at some point
most of the content will be obsolete, but I understand that it has to
end at some point.
> I fear that ask is not giving us that much control on what's enabled
> and disabled in "read-only mode". I see there is still pagination to
> access later answers... Would you have an example of a question with
> the "see more comments" behavior ?
One example would be here:
https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/128442/how-to-setup-controller-node-ha-with-all-services/
Regards,
Eugen
Zitat von Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>:
> Eugen Block wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have a question regarding read-only ask.openstack.org.
>> I understand the decision to make it read-only but one thing still
>> bothers me since I look up problems from time to time. And I
>> noticed that you can't expand all comments if there were more than
>> a few. Users were able to expand by clicking "see more comments"
>> but that's not possible anymore. Is there any way to make the whole
>> page visible, maybe remove that button and kind of "auto-expand"
>> all comments? Some of the comments might have valuable information.
>
> Hi Eugen,
>
> I fear that ask is not giving us that much control on what's enabled
> and disabled in "read-only mode". I see there is still pagination to
> access later answers... Would you have an example of a question with
> the "see more comments" behavior ?
>
> More generally, note that we'll hit a dead-end in April when the ask
> server LTS distribution will cease to be supported, and we have
> nobody in the community with time to work on porting the ask setup
> to more recent distributions... So the plan is to turn it off.
>
> At that point ask.openstack.org content will be lost, unless we
> somehow make a static copy somewhere. The Internet archive has
> copies of ask.openstack.org but they do not seem to run very deep.
> If anyone has ideas on how we could preserve that content without
> spending too many cycles on it, please share :)
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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