This is just my opinion, but I feel that QA systems like askbot and stackexchange are far superior for this type of community effort than a forum like phpbb.  Case in point, I almost never find the answer to my programming or system administration problems on a forum anymore, I instead find them on *.stackexchange.com.

I don't think it has to do with owning the data as much as the arduous process of getting a stackexchange instance.  The http://robotics.stackexchange.com/ has been working towards getting vetted for a long time now, perhaps ROS questions/answers could live there in the future, but having a dedicated ROS stackexchange is not feasible IMHO.

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Claudio Carbone <cla_carbone@tiscali.it> wrote:
On 20/02/13 10:24, Claudio Carbone wrote:
you can have subforums tailored to the specific argument (eg: building which would cover build systems and package/stack structures; transformations which would cover urdf models, joints, publishers; Communications which would cover the ROS API, topics, services, etc...)

I just remembered that the phpbb.org support forum (phpbb being one of the widest spread free forum platforms) even has sub-sub-<...>-forums for each and every plugin/modification where the creator of the plugin/mod can answer users questions far from the main busy discussion areas keeping them clean.

I can't but think this would be much more useful to the community.

Although I acknowledge that it's ultimately a management decision from WG or whoever will guide ROS in the future.


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