[tor-talk] Plans about Askbot?

[Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>]

17.06.2013 05:33, Andrew Lewman:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:04:08 +0200
> "Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>" <bastik.tor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You had ask.TPO with Askbot already running and it is still running.
>> All it seems to take is an active community that feeds it with
>> questions and answers them.
> 
> The askbot software needs work itself, and there's the enhancements we'd
> want to see for our own needs, such as:
> 
>   * Add a subsite feature:
>     - a single login should allow to post on different subsites
>     - a single user might have different credentials, karmas and badges
>       in different subsites
>     - allow to move questions between subsites (if allowed to do so)
>     - subsites can be tied to one or more languages (see multilanguage)
>   * Enable people to post and comment without having to provide an
>     email address to create an account.
>   * Fix the display issue in the Ajax search box renders it unusable
>     with TBB and Tails.
>   * Add multilanguage feature to:
>     - allow users to change the language of the interface they see
>     - allow to filter the content by the language of the questions
>   * Add askbot to debian wheezy repos for easy installation
> 
> It came down to the decision of spending money on fixing and modifying
> askbot and making a better tor. We chose the latter.
> 
> If some community wants to improve askbot, we'll consider using it in
> the future. Right now, we have limited resources and had to choose
> between more tor or askbot. Again, we're always going to choose tor in
> these decisions.
> 

Thank you for this list.

Your choice is based on your scope. I would make the same decision.

Best,
bastik