Some downsides and questions: - Unless there is an undocumented fast-track, we'd need to suffer through the are 51 staging zone, where we cannot have our own css styles etc. - Can we keep the URL "answers.ros.com"? - How to migrate existing Questions and answers to a stack-exchange ROS site and make sure user accounts in answers.ros.org match user accounts in stack exchange? - how can we migrate such as URLs for questions remain the same (such as used for marking duplicates). It seems that stackexchange has a small army of staff that could help with such questions, and developers who might help with migration. On 08/16/2012 11:47 AM, Marcus Liebhardt wrote: > > > 2012/8/16 Arkapravo Bhaumik > > > +1 to Jonathan Bohren > > On 16 August 2012 13:51, Jonathan Bohren > > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Marcus Liebhardt > > wrote: > > The recent notification about a robotics Q&A site on > StackExchange made me remember an old question on ROS > answers: > http://answers.ros.org/question/12386/is-ros-answer-able-to-join-stackexchange/ > > It raises the question about the possibility of moving ROS > Answers to StackExchange, but unfortunately it didn't > get many answers. It is mentioned, that "our" site is not > compatible with StackExchange and that some people are not > happy with how things are handled over at StackExchange > (e.g. user control). > > I'm still curious why we actually created our own Q&A site > and/or why we don't move our site over to StackExchange. > I see the following benefits in case of migrating: > * less(no) maintenance work > > * ROS gets more visible (and thereby attracting more users) > * convenient for people already using other StackExchange > sites, such as StackOverflow > > If this has already been discussed in the past, please > point me to the respective information (and/or write a > corresponding answer on ROS answers). Thank you! > > > I think having a site that's ROS-specific decreases the noise, > and helps the community support itself more efficiently. I > don't think it would be a good idea to try to merge ROS > answers with another support site, especially one as generic > as "robotics". > > > Sorry guys, seems like I didn't make myself clear enough. > My intention is _NOT_ merging ROS Answers into another existing Q&A > site, such as StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/) or Robotics > (mentioned in the other thread). > I suggest moving our Q&A to StackExchange (http://stackexchange.com/), > which is an aggregation of various Q&A sites all sharing the same > underlying system (software as far as I understand). > So, we would still have our own, ROS-only Q&A site. > > Cheers, > Marcus > > -j > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > -- > _Arkapravo Bhaumik_ > E-mail : arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com > > Website : www.mobotica.com > Twitter : @abhaumik > Facebook : arkapravo@facebook.com > Skype : arkapravo > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > > -- > Marcus Liebhardt > Control Engineer > Yujin Robot > ??: ??? ? ??? ??? ??? 345-30 ????? #601, 153-023. > Address: Door #601, Namsung-Plaza, 345-30 Gasan-dong, Guemcheon-gu, > Seoul, 153-023, Republic of Korea > Website: http://www.yujinrobot.com > Email: marcus.liebhardt@yujinrobot.com > > Phone: +82-2-2104-0435 > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users