On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 12:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Ask Fedora is one of our primary user-facing support resources. It's > reasonably successful, with over 18,000 questions, with almost 80% of > those having at least some answer. It has a small but active and > passionate community. ask type communities can be an incredible resource for a community. I was very active with AskUbuntu before converting to Fedora. > On the other hand, I've heard from the infrastructure team that it's > taking an increasing amount of time just to keep the service running, > and making improvements is out of the question. We're having trouble > keeping up with things like keeping the software on the recent > version, let alone advancing new ideas. > Since this is such an important thing for users, I think we need an > improvement. I asked the community what to do > <https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/95681/ask-fedora-is-it-wor > king-and-whats-the-future/> > and the top-voted response is from the upstream author, who has > offered > to host the site for $250/month, including 6 hours of development > time. > > Assuming we can make the money work out, what do you think about > this? It is a small community when compared with AskUbuntu that has 249,575 answers. I personally found it difficult to get started with AskFedora and have not revisited the site. I think if we make a commitment to paying for someone to host the site that we need to make an effort to make it easier for more users to contribute to the site. Charles
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