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. -- 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/aanlktin8s5wx+ao1-ydjfb4ekcs5xa2gfteji2dd3...@mail.gmail.com
