Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to
announce the launch of Ask Fedora at http://ask.fedoraproject.org. Ask
Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora
community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not
need a separate id to post questions or answer them.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe...er/003012.html

PS: Ask Fedora is purely for question and answers. It is *not* meant to be a discussion forum like this one.

[ariel]

I tried registering with my OpenID. It takes me to my OpenID.com login but the redirect back to the ask.fedoraproject.org never takes me back. I think there is some problem with the redirect loop. Could you please check when you get a chance? Thanks!

[RahulSundaram]

What about if you use another id like Google or Wordpress?

[stevea]

Is a linear list a good organization ?
Doesn't this overlap/detract from the FedoraForum effort ? To what good end ?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07...or-ask-fedora/ explains my motivation. If you want to help with a different organization, feel free to propose mockups.

Originally Posted by stevea

Is a linear list a good organization ?
Doesn't this overlap/detract from the FedoraForum effort ? To what good end ?

i can understand where Rahul is coming from with this website he made, but i think at the end of the day if people want answers etc there gonna come to the forum anyway not go somewhere New to get them

[Dan]

It's probably a good idea here to remember that giving free and constructive assistance is the final goal in both environments, and we really are not in any kind of competition.

[bob]

And, I'd hope that when good solutions appear in either venue, that someone would make the effort and post them both places.

PS: Ask Fedora is purely for question and answers. It is *not* meant to be a discussion forum like this one.

Nice in theory. Let's see how well it works in reality.

Also, isn't this also somewhat the same thing? http://linuxbsdos.com/ask/category/fedora/

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by bob

And, I'd hope that when good solutions appear in either venue, that someone would make the effort and post them both places.

Nice in theory. Let's see how well it works in reality.

Also, isn't this also somewhat the same thing? http://linuxbsdos.com/ask/category/fedora/

Never seen that link before and it doesn't seem to support most of the features of Ask Fedora

[sonoran]

Originally Posted by stevea

Is a linear list a good organization ?
Doesn't this overlap/detract from the FedoraForum effort ? To what good end ?

I agree. What Fedora could really use, rather than another question/answer forum, is a
wiki format knowledge base.

The change from grub to grub2 is a good example. I have read the F16 Release Notes,
Installation Guide, and the installed grub2 info docs (which are notably useless and don't
incorporate Fedora's changes to grub2), none of which clearly address the issues that
are appearing on the Fedora Forum.

Why can't Fedora provide even minimally adequate documentation for what amounts to a
major feature change in the distribution? Comparable to:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2

It is more than a little disheartening to have to go to other distros to find good documentation.
Misappropriation of resources, to say the very least.

i agree, they do need to fix the wiki up rather than Add a useless askbot thing.

[RahulSundaram]

@sonoran, Ask Fedora has a in-built wiki feature. Instead of complaining, how about helping improve documentation?

@detox, Dissing on what others do for free isn't nice. Over 250 questions have already been answered via what you called useless

Originally Posted by RahulSundaram

@sonoran, Ask Fedora has a in-built wiki feature. Instead of complaining, how about helping improve documentation?

@detox, Dissing on what others do for free isn't nice. Over 250 questions have already been answered via what you called useless

yeah i have been there ( well at the site anyway ) if i want answers on something either i'll come to the forum or look at the wiki but as bob said above i think, we'll see how successful it is. , i just cant see many from this community using that feature

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just an idea. but perhaps leigh might wanna make a Link to the askbot page in fedoraproject it might get more coverage

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by detox

yeah i have been there ( well at the site anyway ) if i want answers on something either i'll come to the forum or look at the wiki but as bob said above i think, we'll see how successful it is. , i just cant see many from this community using that feature

It is already quite successful and getting dozens of questions and answers everyday. Thank you for your interest.

[surmabhopali]

Originally Posted by Dan

It's probably a good idea here to remember that giving free and constructive assistance is the final goal in both environments, and we really are not in any kind of competition.

hmmmm...just a single suggestion....we can have common search results of "fedoraforum" and "askfedora" on ask fedora website , in separate pages and/or with demarcations.