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> the main reason we do not have an offical fourm any more is that we do
not have
enough contibutors to maintain one.

In my entire life, I've never seen a technology that's used so widely, but
so few people are involved in. At this point, I can nearly name all the
active OpenStackers in the United States off the top of my head.


On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 4:57 AM Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 13:33 +0700, Nguyễn Hữu Khôi wrote:
> > In my view,
> > Having an official forum will make our projects grow faster and users can
> > access Openstack easier.
> >
> > Take a look at K8S or Icinga. They are very good at helping people to
> > access their platform by having a nice forum.
> >
> > I can help set up and configure the forum.
> >
> > I hope Openstack will become more and more mature and grow.
> openstack has had 26 releases over 10+ years and many we would see it as a
> very mature comunity.
> in fact it has past the hype/fast groth phases and is into the more stable
> grandule eveolving and sustaining
> phase. the main reason we do not have an offical fourm any more is that we
> do not have
> enough contibutors to maintain one. as was noted in the tread that is why
> ask.openstack.org was removed.
>
> the opendev infra team is small and manages alot of service on behalf of
> the comunity
> our prvious fourm attempt largely went unmainteined for years. if one was
> to be created again
> it would need to be automated, maintaiend and hosted with several people
> commiting to maintaining it.
>
> it would likely be better to collaberate with an exsitign froum or
> opensouce comunity then host our own
> at this point. e.g. stackoverflow or perhaps a matrix/mastadon space of
> some kind.
>
> the other problem is getting the people with the knowlage to partake.
> many wont have the time to be active in such a fourm.
>
> many of the active members of our comunity have been wearing 2 or 3 hats
> already and may not have
> the mental bandwith to also act as support in an offical fourm and answer
> questions. that would leave
> the questions eitehr unanswered or to experinced users/operators.
>
> some of the more exprience operators may have bandwith to step in, in fact
> having an operator lead fourm might be more interesting as
> if there is a common issue and/or a solution that they comeup with that
> could be feed back to the project
> teams to fix or implement for them. its equally likely they will be busy
> running there clouds and the questions will be
> unansered or poorly answered.
>
> its a gap i just dont know if its one that can be simply filled.
>
>
> >
> > Nguyen Huu Khoi
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:34 PM T Koksal <tevfikkoksal64 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I totally agree with Nguyen! I believe, as a new comer into Openstack I
> > > have concluded that there is the expectation from the user the to have
> > > pre-existing knowledge of the platforms. Additionally, the
> documentation is
> > > all-over and unstructured for someone wanting to learn.
> > >
> > > TK
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 7:05 AM Bernd Bausch <berndbausch at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > There used to be ask.openstack.org, but since nobody maintained the
> > > > website, it became unreliable and was eventually disbanded. At the
> time, we
> > > > were encouraged to ask questions at superuser.com and, in case it's
> > > > related to programming, stackoverflow.com. There is also
> > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/openstack, which is probably less
> "official"
> > > > but seems more lively than the two Stackexchange sites.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 7:56 AM Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <
> > > > nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello guys.
> > > > >
> > > > > Openstack is a very interesting project, many questions from users
> will
> > > > > make it grow more and more but I see that people, including me,
> still ask
> > > > > the same question. It is hard to sort or find knowledge by this
> way.
> > > > >
> > > > > If we hope this project spreads for people, we need a new way to
> share
> > > > > knowledge and skills, we are in the modern world but the way to
> access and
> > > > > exchange information in this project is too obsolete. This is a
> wall to
> > > > > slow down this project.
> > > > > Nguyen Huu Khoi
> > > > >
> > > >
>
>
>
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