Re: Feature Query

[Ahsan Shahid]

I am not saying that Askbot should have to be integrated into Agora, I am saying that Octave should have something like StackOverflow. You're right that it should not be hosted on Agora. http://help.octave.org/  would be a much better choice. The motivation behind this is that Octave lack such platform where newbies can ask for help.(and I am aware of  the fact Octave do have a very useful wiki ).

-Ahsan

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:

On 25 July 2013 17:43, Ahsan Shahid <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jordi!
> I hope you are doing good :).  I have been looking into integrating more
> features to Agora.  I have got an idea about Octave. I am thinking of adding
> a forum/ Q/A module to the Agora.  The advantage of such forum is that when
> new users need any help regarding Octave, they can turn to the forum and ask
> for any help. I know there is a well populated wiki for Octave. But still
> there are a lot of people who do not use mailing list or do not know how to
> use them and if any query comes about the issue that has already been
> adressed, one can point the guy asking for help to the wiki page.
>
> The module that I have looked for the Q/A feature is:
> http://askbot.org/en/questions/
>
> In my opinion whole Octave community will benefit from this. What do you say
> about this?

I think this is a very bad idea. Agora is meant to be the place to
share package, bundles or snippets. One should be able to leave
comments and notes about one of those things, maybe have a very simple
bug tracker for them but that's it. It is not the place for the Octave
community to have discussions or get help.

I agree that such thing could be useful, something like stackoverflow
for Octave but in that case it's simply a matter of hosting it
ourselves (OSQA or askbot) at help.octave.org or something like that.
Not to integrate into Agora.

I really don't think Agora need more features at the moment. It just
needs to have working the ones on the main page.

Carnë