Resending so it hits the list. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016, at 09:22 PM, Justin W. Flory wrote: > On 10/20/2016 02:09 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:27:39PM -0000, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> Should this be something that is sunset then? Or at a minimum widely > >> advertised as needing community effort to keep active? > > > > There are a handful of very active members who put in a lot of work and > > effort; it isn't just a vacant lot full of weeds and bricks, which > > would make the decision easy. > > > > We never did get a "meta" site set up, so there's not really a great > > place to have this discussion (which is why I'm having it here). I > > guess I'll start a discussion there with the [meta] tag. > > > > As a thought to add to this, it would be nice to have a place for people > interested in Ask Fedora to congregate and discuss. Before I was > involved now, I had joined #fedora-ask in 2014 because I had considered > looking into if I could help moderate or help the platform, but the > channel was mostly fedmsg notifications. > > My point is, I think there may be people outside of the normal > contributor periphery who may want to assist with Ask, but there's no > effective means for people who wish to help to do so. This may not be > relevant for Infrastructure, but some helpful steps I could see to > bringing contributor focus into Ask is starting by providing a place and > means for people who want to help to do so. > > One part of me says "there aren't enough contributors actively helping > here to justify having it as a resource", but another part sees the > great value in the fedmsg integration with Ask and how it does bring > people and contributors *into* the project community. Do we have activity statistics for the Ask site? Can we determine if non-contributors are using it and actually getting help? Should we make a push in the commblog for interested parties to come forward? My gut feeling is that, as others have said in the thread, we don't need any more bad open source copies making information hard to find and growing weeds. If there is an actual user community then we may choose to keep it around and try to work harder on finding maintainers. If not, we can give more serious thought to shutting it down, possibly as part of a larger review of how we communicate with various platforms in general (huge poop storm as someone said). regards, bex _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
