[keycloak-user] Stack Overflow

[Stian Thorgersen]

The core contributors on Keycloak simply can't afford to monitor two
separate places. So it's going to be one or the other.

On 24 February 2017 at 14:49, John D. Ament <john.d.ament at gmail.com> wrote:

> The difference is that its every question.  In addition to SO, would we
> also look at SF for the infrastructure/deployment side? What about having
> questions on security.stackexchange since this is a very security oriented
> project?
>
> To be honest, my dislike for it is not the "let's use stackoverflow" its
> the "let's drop the mailing lists" part.
>
> Anyways, I just posted a question on SO.  I'll look to see if it gets
> answered ;-)
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:39 AM Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Isn't the mailing list also a noisy mess of questions? I've never used
>> Stack Overflow much myself except when it pops up in Google searches. To me
>> it feels like a mailing list, but with the additional extra of being
>> searchable, votes, you can easily link to answers on it and quite important
>> if there's a duplicate question you can just point to the previous answered
>> question.
>>
>> On 24 February 2017 at 13:24, John D. Ament <john.d.ament at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh? Then my opinion, SO is a noisy mess of questions.  I used to use it
>> regularly, not so much lately.  I think you would lose value IMHO moving to
>> only SO.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:21 AM Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think it's reasonable easy to move the volume. We'll just stop
>> responding to the user mailing list and direct folks to SO.
>>
>> I primarily looking for feedback on mailing list vs Stack Overflow at
>> this point though.
>>
>> On 24 February 2017 at 13:15, John D. Ament <john.d.ament at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Just took a quick look at the SO traffic for keycloak.
>>
>> It seems like the ML is higher volume than SO.  You may want to start by
>> adding links to SO tags from keycloak.org and see if it picks up.
>>
>> My 0.02.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:05 AM Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We're considering dropping the Keycloak user mailing list and moving to
>> Stack Overflow instead.
>>
>> Thoughts?
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