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Bug 355832

Summary:	Consideration for eclipse.stackoverflow.com
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Bryan Hunt <bhunt>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	denis.roy, eclipse-bugs, evan_hughes, gunnar, pwebster, remy.suen, tomasz.zarna, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Bryan Hunt

2011-08-25 09:35:56 EDT

I would like to humbly suggest consideration for moving the Eclipse forums to stackoverflow.  Facebook recently announced (http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/24/facebook-turns-to-stack-overflow-to-power-developer-forums/) that they are moving their developer forums to stackoverflow and it seems like a good idea that could also translate to the Eclipse community.

Discuss :)

Comment 1 Evan Hughes

2011-08-25 09:44:41 EDT

I believe that you can nominate the creation of a SO site yourself. See http://area51.stackexchange.com.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2011-08-25 16:24:15 EDT

In my wild fantasy world, the "official" Eclipse forums are run by Eclipse enthusiasts and users.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2014-09-04 15:25:34 EDT

*I* am not going to do it.  I feel this is an area where the community can step up and help out.

Comment 4 Eric Rizzo

2016-01-22 14:48:57 EST

(In reply to Denis Roy from comment #3)
> *I* am not going to do it.  I feel this is an area where the community can
> step up and help out.

I understand that position, but the success of such an effort seems likely to depend a lot on how the Eclipse Foundation endorses and promotes such a thing as THE place for community discussions.
Put another way: if eclipse.stackoverflow.com existed in parallel to forums.eclipse.org, I doubt it would garner enough participation to graduate from the area51 incubator.