On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 22:53, Denmat <tu2bg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > How about a 'serverfault' or 'stackoverflow' or the like site? One of >>> > the issues I find is that previous answers are lost in mail lists and hard >>> > to search for. IRC isn't much help for searching previous answers either. >>> >>> I would absolutely support getting a new StackExchange site for >>> configuration management or something going. What it really needs is >>> someone to drive that forward - you can't just ask for one, it needs a >>> community. >> >> >> Daniel, mmm.. do we want a general purpose configuration management site >> or a puppet specific one? I'd be willing to help host and setup a puppet >> specific one, however, I'd have thought that would be something that >> puppetlabs would want to own/run. Feel free to discuss internally, and let >> me know which way you guys want to go. > > > Hey Brian, thanks for the offer, it's much appreciated. > > We do want to be running this, primarily because we want to provide an > integrated platform that includes a bit more than just the Q&A site itself. > We'd like to be able to integrate profiles across the Forge, a Q&A site and > even the bug tracker. > > It would be great if you were on a Q&A site, asking questions about > developing modules, and to be able to see that the person answering your > question has published several awesome Puppet modules that are really > popular. Vice versa, it would be great to be able to look at a module and > see that the author is a highly engaged member of the community. > > So all in all, we do want to provide this as a service by us, and it's > difficult to get that level of integration with StackExchange. > > I would like to point out that we've got a growing ServerFault community > under the 'puppet' tag, and there are some great people answering Puppet > questions there. > > This is clearly an even more pressing need than we'd been thinking, so we're > going to try and accelerate this.
And to post the actual ServerFault link: http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/puppet -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
