+1 to StackOverflow -- that has become the goto source for programming FAQs
On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote: > With the core specs basically out the door and seeing wider adoption and > publicity, the OAuth community is going to start to get more questions about > "how do I do X?", and many of these are questions that have been answered > before or seem "obvious" to those of us who have been up to our ears in the > spec for the past few years. Nevertheless, these are important questions to > support for the wellbeing of the protocol community, but where should they be > asked? > > When the OAuth community lived on a simple Google Group, these kinds of > questions make sense. But I'd argue that the IETF list is not really the > right place for them. This list, and the IETF in general, seems to be best > suited for *building* the protocol, not for the *use* and *support* of said > protocol once it's built. > > The problem is that, as of right now, we don't have anywhere to point people > where they could get a "real" answer. > > This opens a larger question of who might "sponsor" or "host" such a > community. Anything like that needs moderators, and more importantly, needs > experts willing to answer the questions. Some options I can think of: > > - Revive the google groups list for these kinds of questions/discussions > - Start a new list/forum, linked to oauth.net > - Point everyone to StackOverflow with an "oauth" tag > > > -- Justin (who is not volunteering himself to host or moderate the group) > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
