Re: Feature Query

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:54 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

I fully share Carnë's opinion here. Lets get Agora running with the
minimum necessary functionalities to share packages and rate them.