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http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum similar to Stackoverflow or Yahoo Answers.  It is written in Python and Django. 
Askbot is the software behind [[Ask fedora]]


== Status ==
http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum similar to [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow] or Yahoo Answers.  It is written in Python and Django.  You can file bug reports by posting questions at http://askbot.org/en/questions/ and the source code is at https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/.  It is primarily developed, maintained, and kindly hosted by Evgeny Fadeev at https://askbot.org.


* Rahul Sundaram is leading a effort to package askbot and all its build time and runtime dependencies for Fedora.  The goal is to get a instance of it running in say http://ask.fedoraproject.org and serve as a forum for questions and answers.
Ask Fedora is not managed by the Fedora [[Infrastructure]] team.
 
* Rahul Sundaram is in touch with the upstream developer, Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny.fadeev gmail) who is willing to help out with integration with Fedora Account System
 
* Toshio from Fedora Infrastructure team raised the question of liability and Red Hat Legal has clarified that there isn't any.  It is like the users list where end users answers other user questions and we don't have to moderate the answers.  Thanks to Spot for helping with a quick response.
 
* Theming needed
 
== Who uses Askbot? ==
 
http://ask.sagemath.org
http://answers.ros.org/questions/
http://asterisk-support.ru/questions/
 
Also WindRiver (Intel) has a internal instance running
 
== Waiting on review (review requests by Rahul Sundaram) ==
 
django-keyedcache - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697492
 
django-robots -  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696516
 
django-countries - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696485
 
django-celery -  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697483
 
django-kombu - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696527
 
python-coffin - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699335
 
askbot  - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699336
 
== Other dependencies (pre-existing review requests)  ==
 
python-celery (dep of django-celery) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611277
 
django-picklefield (dep of python-celery) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611068
 
python-kombu (dep of python-celery) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691115
 
python-html5lib (runtime dep of askbot) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=252108

Latest revision as of 15:50, 15 November 2018

Askbot is the software behind Ask fedora

http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum similar to Stack Overflow or Yahoo Answers. It is written in Python and Django. You can file bug reports by posting questions at http://askbot.org/en/questions/ and the source code is at https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/. It is primarily developed, maintained, and kindly hosted by Evgeny Fadeev at https://askbot.org.

Ask Fedora is not managed by the Fedora Infrastructure team.