[OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

[Lester Caine]

On 20/05/2020 08:28, Tobias Wrede wrote:
> 
> The site is based on OSQA, a software which has not been maintained in 
> some time. Some application errors have surface in the past but had to 
> be ignored since no fixes are coming from OSQA any more. Until now we 
> could live with that. They were annoying but not critical. There are 
> open tickets on OSM github to move the help site to some other framework 
> (https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/149, 
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/377) but there isn't 
> exactly an abundance of volunteers to take care of that.

Question2Answer looks like it's being well supported. At least it has a 
release that works on the latest PHP and while it's a little long in the 
tooth, https://github.com/jamesspittal/osqa-q2a offers a hope that there 
is potential to pump existing material across?

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