<div dir="ltr">All good, Jermey, I was just offering to add support/help. I work for an Openstack company here in Canada, just putting my hand up to help out :) I don't see a cohesive end user/community "home", I could be wrong and happy to be if I am not seeing it. IRC is problematic in that it requires a persistent connection, there is no "record" if you are disconnected, for you to see an answer to your question, for example. <div><br></div><div>Perhaps I can ask you, is the current system working? If so, I will pop back into my box. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Michael </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 3:35 PM Jeremy Stanley <<a href="mailto:fungi@yuggoth.org">fungi@yuggoth.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2023-01-31 19:21:06 -0500 (-0500), Michael Knox wrote:<br>
> I would be happy to contribute and maintain. If that's the ask.<br>
<br>
The offer is appreciated, but you'll need top clarify what you mean<br>
by "maintain" in that case. Are you offering to install and run the<br>
service? And for how many years can you commit to doing that?<br>
<br>
> mailing lists and IRC are not overly useful, 24 hours in<br>
> #openstack is just people connecting and disconnecting.<br>
<br>
This is actually an example of why the past web forum attempts never<br>
worked out. Users are told to go ask questions in the #openstack<br>
channel, where few people with answers have any incentive to hang<br>
out, so it's unsurprising that you at best hear crickets there. This<br>
mailing list is a converged communication channel also used by<br>
people working on the software, and so I see far more questions<br>
posted here getting answered as a result.<br>
<br>
> There is a great community here and the user support is fragmented.<br>
<br>
People are also already asking and sometimes answering questions on<br>
StackOverflow, Reddit, Slack, and so on. Adding a web forum on top<br>
of the existing options for places to ask questions seems likely to<br>
lead to even more fragmentation (perhaps you have suggestions for<br>
how to address that challenge?). I apologize if I seem overly<br>
skeptical, but after more than a decade of trying things and then<br>
seeing people propose the same things that didn't work before, I've<br>
become quite cautious of such offers.<br>
-- <br>
Jeremy Stanley<br>
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