[ros-users] Move ROS answers to StackExchange?

[Thibault Kruse]

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