Is ROS answer able to join stackexchange?

asked 2011-12-17 17:18:10 -0500

sam
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updated 2011-12-17 21:55:15 -0500

AHornung

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Because I can use stackexchange's function to see message on whatever board.

If ROS answer can join them, I can receive notice message on any of stackexchange board.

Thank you~

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answered 2011-12-18 06:37:48 -0500

mjcarroll

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No, OSQA/Askbot is not compatible with Stackexchange.

If you are explicitly looking for a Robotics QNA site on Stackexchange, Robotics Research is in the commitment phase of it's launch currently. It is not a ROS community like this one is, but a more general robotics QNA hosted on stack exchange.

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Is there any way to suggest them to fix this uncompatible? If yes,this way will also attract more people to use stackexchange.

sam ( 2011-12-18 12:31:16 -0500 )edit

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I don't think there is any fix to this. Some people just don't agree with the way that Stack Exchange works, and want more control over their communities. I don't think that it is a high priority for either OSQA/Askbot or Stack Exchange to add this feature.

mjcarroll ( 2011-12-19 01:17:19 -0500 )edit

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What's the big difference between both? From my user point of view they do the same thing - I can ask questions and people answer. I also think adding the ROS Q&A to stack exchange would be a good idea!

bit-pirate ( 2012-07-04 14:29:26 -0500 )edit

Now, robotics.stackexchange.com is the general robotics platform in stack exchange.

Orhan ( 2016-08-16 07:32:16 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-08-16 01:08:00 -0500

KruseT

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updated 2012-08-16 01:27:11 -0500

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 means we 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

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