On 08/05/2012 05:40, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
Is there any reason not to just use ServerFault as the
Q&A system, rather than deploy and maintain an equivalent on
new-www.xen.org?
There are already a fair number of Xen-related questions on
there, and they could use more answers.
The reason why I believe we need to do this, is that today Xen has
an issue connecting with its user base. A design goal for the new
site is to create a motivation for Xen users to connect with Xen.org
and sign up. The Q&A system is only one aspect of this. Another
one is the vendor directory. We will do the same for the blog and
maybe other resources in future.
Where we started doing this, for example with the new wiki, we are
seeing new momentum. Most open source projects provide a place where
the community (users and developers) can congregate in one place.
This creates synergies between the developer and user communities
(one can't live without the other). Xen has never really done this,
and was always heavily biased towards developers. As a result users
are scattered all over the place and it appears that we have much
less momentum than we actually have.
As an aisde: new.xen.org will eventually become xen.org
Cheers
Lars
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