Askbot

http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum similar to Stackoverflow or Yahoo Answers. It is written in Python and Django.

Status

• 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.

• 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