Open Stack

Typically we give a cry for help and people pay attention and start
moderating again for a month or so. Then it falls off of people’s
radar again. The site needs massive improvements: better spam
filtering, smarter suggestion engine to discourage duplicate posts,
better tagging and search, etc... most questions go unanswered or
unmoderated for months.

I’d love it if someone took up that task, but I fear it won’t happen.
Ifwecant find a champion, I believe we should think about winding down
the service. In its current state it’s doing more harm than good.

Thanks,
Jimmy

> On Nov 9, 2019, at 7:06 PM, Bernd Bausch <berndbausch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, I guess it's still useful. Traffic is not very high, perhaps 5 questions a day (if there are logs, it should be easy to confirm this), both from absolute beginners and advanced users.
>
> No idea what time and skill is required to maintain an Askbot site, but I am certainly curious.
>
> Bernd.
>
>> On 2019/11/10 2:07 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>> For some reason Apache has been failing to restart during daily log
>> rotation all week. I've manually started it again. Most of the
>> sysadmins have been busy with other things in Shanghai (myself
>> included), but I had a few free minutes on a layover just now.
>>
>> It's worth keeping in mind that the ask.openstack.org site has
>> basically been unmaintained for years, ever since the AskBot
>> maintainer OSF was contracting to run it disappeared. If folks are
>> still finding the service useful, then we probably need to have a
>> conversation about finding a maintainer for it.
>
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