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 <arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com
> <mailto:arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com>>
>
> +1 to Jonathan Bohren
>
> On 16 August 2012 13:51, Jonathan Bohren
> <jonathan.bohren@gmail.com <mailto:jonathan.bohren@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Marcus Liebhardt
> <marcus.liebhardt@yujinrobot.com
> <mailto:marcus.liebhardt@yujinrobot.com>> 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
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