create an 'official' OSQA instance

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Georgia Sam

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Sep 9, 2010, 3:45:40 PM9/9/10
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I've noticed that much of the activity on the django-users mailing
list is users asking technical help questions. Stuff like "how do I
install ..." and "When I do X, this error happens...". Theres nothing
wrong with this, it's just that these types of questions make up 90%
of the activity on that list. Those kinds of threads have very narrow
appeal. As a result, the other 10% of the post on that list that would
hold the interest of a much broader audience, get drowned out. I know
there are some djangonauts that don't even read the users mailing list
any more because it's too hard to filter through to the good stuff.

Heres what I think what needs to happen: The DSF should host and set
up an OSQA instance for all the questions that are technical help in
nature. That way, the django-users list can focus on the more
interesting stuff. Plus, OSQA has an interface designed explicitly for
asking technical help questions, so things like code samples are
syntax highlighted and don't suffer from getting messed up by being
wrapped after 80 chars.

BTW, if you don't know what OSQA is, it's a stack overflow clone
written in django. I'm not too sure how stable it is, though.
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