On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:31, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshep...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:24, Stefano Zacchiroli <lea...@debian.org> wrote: >> Dear followers of the -user mailing list, >> you might be interesting in knowing that since yesterday there's a new >> Debian experiment ongoing in the area of user support: >> >> http://shapado.debian.net/ >> >> which is a multi-language question/answer website where participants can >> ask questions, answer questions, and rank answers given by others. I'm > > When reading this, I thought the reason you were not instead promoting > unix.stackexchange.com was because it's a non-free web service. But > visitng http://shapado.debian.net/ indicated that they both use the > same engine. Ubuntu folk decided to do the same thing with > http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/, and there were similar complaints > about such factionalism. Seriously, much of how Debian works is how > other Unix-like systems work, and it happens for example, that some > useful info is lost because of this needless replication. > > Here's a good example of my point: > > * > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/767/what-is-the-real-difference-between-apt-get-and-aptitude-how-about-wajig > * > http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/4719/what-are-benefits-of-aptitude-compared-to-apt-get > * > http://shapado.debian.net/questions/the-debian-administration-recommanded-program-apt-or-aptitude > > You will notice that this is basically the same question. Now, what > are good reasons for having a Debian-only StackOverflow clone? I'd > understand if the clone was non-free, but even then, all data is > released under Creative Commons.
I was embarassed to learn that the tech is FLOSS: http://shapado.com/questions/how-does-shapado-compare-to-stackexchange. -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiku1mxy4-fq0mhabuxbbhis5hd=if-niev9p...@mail.gmail.com
