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See

http://www.ros.org/news/2011/02/announcing-ros-answers.html

https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20110208.182812.07530210.en.html

Some reasons that would make it hard / bad to migrate:

• Unless there is an undocumented fast-track, we'd need to suffer through the area 51 staging zone, where we cannot have our own css styles etc.

• Effort to migrate existing Questions and answers to a stack-exchange ROS site and make sure user accounts in answers.ros.org match user accounts in stack exchange and also keep URLs for questions remain the same (such as used for marking duplicates).

• External hosting downtimes cannot be fixed by ourselves

• External hosting menas we lose ownership of our data
• stackexchange is not open-source, while askbot is, and the ROS community prefers to foster open-source projects to closed-source
• it is easier to get customizations by Askbot maintainers

See

http://www.ros.org/news/2011/02/announcing-ros-answers.html

https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20110208.182812.07530210.en.html

http://robotics-worldwide.1046236.n5.nabble.com/robotics-worldwide-Robotics-Stackexchange-td5706992.html

Some reasons that would make it hard / bad to migrate:

• Unless there is an undocumented fast-track, we'd need to suffer through the area 51 staging zone, where we cannot have our own css styles etc.

• Effort to migrate existing Questions and answers to a stack-exchange ROS site and make sure user accounts in answers.ros.org match user accounts in stack exchange and also keep URLs for questions remain the same (such as used for marking duplicates).

• External hosting downtimes cannot be fixed by ourselves

• External hosting menas we lose ownership of our data
• stackexchange is not open-source, while askbot is, and the ROS community prefers to foster open-source projects to closed-source
• it is easier to get customizations by Askbot maintainers

See

http://www.ros.org/news/2011/02/announcing-ros-answers.html

https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20110208.182812.07530210.en.html

http://robotics-worldwide.1046236.n5.nabble.com/robotics-worldwide-Robotics-Stackexchange-td5706992.html

Some reasons that would make it hard / bad to migrate:

• Unless there is an undocumented fast-track, we'd need to suffer through the area 51 staging zone, where we cannot have our own css styles etc.

• Effort to migrate existing Questions and answers to a stack-exchange ROS site and make sure user accounts in answers.ros.org match user accounts in stack exchange and also keep URLs for questions remain the same (such as used for marking duplicates).

• External hosting downtimes cannot be fixed by ourselves

• External hosting menas means we lose ownership of have less control over our data
• stackexchange is not open-source, while askbot is, and the ROS community prefers to foster open-source projects to closed-source
• it is easier to get customizations by Askbot maintainers