Re: RFC: New http://ask.cakephp.org

Yes, a dedicated sub-site at stackoverflow would be great but it will take a very big amount of work as Mark Story said.
I'd be happy to participate in/dedicate myself to such an initiative however I have some considerations.

I've been actively reading and answering questions under the cakephp tags and I've noticed that maybe over 60% of the questions are asked by people who didn't take care to read the documentation first at all. People are just lazy. And this is not only under cakephp in stackoverflow... So at the end this may lead to more unnecessary overhead work for the community. I'd like us to think of a way to minimize such a practice as the documentation already says it? Maybe some clear references etc. I am not talking about solutions that consist of several pieces and are referenced in different parts of the documentation but rather straight-forward things that are clearly stated in the appropriate section of the documentation - Book & API. In my opinion CakePHP has one of the best documentations out there and it would be a total waste to keep answering such questions.

Cheers,
 Borislav.

Greetings from Bulgaria. :)

On Friday, 28 June 2013 03:43:38 UTC+3, ravag...@gmail.com wrote:

[Cross posting this on CakePHP Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cake.community/]

Hello everybody

I came across an idea which I wanted to share with and hope to spark some discussion.
Probably - or better said for sure - I'm not even the first one having it.

First some back story:

As you may know CakePHP's Question & Answer site http://ask.cakephp.org/ redirects nowadays to "cakephp" tagged questions on stackoverflow.com.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakephp

I haven't seen any official statement about that from the development team but the Wayback Machine could crawl the page the last time on 09.05.2013.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130509084040/http://ask.cakephp.org

The CakePHP Questions site before that, http://www.cakeqs.org/ (nowadays a japanese blog), was last seen on 02.10.2010.
Any later request got redirected to http://ask.cakephp.org/.

http://web.archive.org/web/20101002085134/http://cakeqs.org/

So back to the idea...

Recently I came accross one of the many domain/topic specific sub sites of stackoverflow.com.

http://stackexchange.com/sites#technology

For example "Drupal Answers".

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/

And I thought "Hey wouldn't it be nicer to redirect CakePHP's Questions & Answers site to something like this instead of just the tagged with "cakephp" site?".

Like I said I'm not the first one, so this is rather a follow-up on a three years old idea, which time hadn't come yet.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/cake-php/stackexchange/cake-php/pA7q6gddW74/aaCntQer_jEJ

But I think the time is now right.
What do you think?
Should we open a proposal for http://cakephp.stackexchange.com/ called "CakePHP Questions & Answers" or something like this?

http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq

I personally think it would strengthen the CakePHP brand even further...

Greetings from Switzerland
Marc

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