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Bug 355832 - Consideration for eclipse.stackoverflow.com
Summary: Consideration for eclipse.stackoverflow.com
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Forums and Newsgroups (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Forums and Newsgroups inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-08-25 09:35 EDT by Bryan Hunt CLA
Modified: 2016-01-22 14:48 EST (History)
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Description Bryan Hunt CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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.