Is the AskBot project still active?

[ldesousa]

I would like to test AskBot, but there are some major issues right now:

1. As made available from the askbot-devel repository, the project does not seem to run (DistributionNotFound exception).

2. The documentation is somewhat disgruntled and in various places is clearly wrong or out of date (e.g. referencing files or file sections that do not exist).

3. The demo Q&A is frozen, i.e., new questions submitted are not posted.

Is this project still going? Or is there a fork out there with active development?

[evgenyfadeev]

Hi, sorry for the slow response. The project will be maintained, however I'll have to scale down on the custom consulting work for the time being. Will try to focus more on the open source project and the saas hosting. Thank you for your message.

[ldesousa]

Hi Evgeny. The page about hosting is down. Was that service closed? Or is it what you call SaaS hosting? Thanks.

[evgenyfadeev]

Hi Luis, I meant https://askbot.com/. What page is down?

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Luís de Sousa [email protected] wrote:

Hi Evgeny. The page about hosting is down. Was that service closed? Or is it what you call SaaS hosting? Thanks.

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[ldesousa]

Right now, it is all down. Not even the home page is loading.

[ldesousa]

https://askbot.org is showing the main page, but from there pages like "About AskBot" or "Consulting Services" are down.

[Alexhans]

Hi, guys. Is there any update? I've offered to help in askbot.com to keep it alive since posts are filtered by moderation and there's apparently no mod activity.

The software seems quite cool and I'm testing internally with some people but it'd be nice to help rebuild the community, if possible.

[haata]

https://askbot.org/ is down.

[slel]

It seems askbot.org is back up. Hopefully some experienced users and/or developers can answer some of the questions from the past few months there.

[mattdm]

The Fedora Project is moving our Askbot instance to @evgenyfadeev's hosted solution. I'm also interested in keeping the project sustainable and sustained.

[benatkin]

I'm interested in it being sustained too. It's been around a long time and helped a lot of people. I just got an answer from The Document Foundation's askbot service, which I found by doing a google search.

[nigini]

I'm also interested in helping with keeping this great software going on.

I'm strongly considering using it to develop a scientific community around a platform I work with and would feel much better if we could join efforts to define a conservative roadmap that would start by updating software dependencies and review registered issues and pull requests.

@evgenyfadeev , do you have a tip on where should we start?

[viktoradavid]

Same here, lets keep this cool project alive - there's quite a big community willing to help with maintanance and development.

[evgenyfadeev]

@viktoradavid Yes, currently working on a proper bootstrap 4 theme. @nigini if the answer not too late for you, I suggest start using the master branch version and discuss the potential development roadmap. (As a sidenote - I've started working on this project to support a scientific community some time in the past).

On the roadmap currently is bootstrap4 - this work is done on the boostrap branch. I am not likely to work on major features until this is done. I think that modern and customizable looks currently are more important than advanced features. Of things that I'd eventually like to do - use graphql & react for certain parts of the app (to start with). Some ideas: provide pdf versions of individual Q/A (perhaps using react-pdf); cleanup/refactoring, especially of the Javascript code, work on Python 3 support in order to be able to eventually use Django 2.

If anyone would like to contribute - bugfix PR's will be reviewed and accepted, to facilitate acceptance of feature PR's - let's please discuss the feature proposals beforehand. At this point polishes/improvements are more likely to be accepted than unsolicited brand new feature PR's (that's why I suggest to discuss first).

Thank you for your interest!

[viktoradavid]

@evgenyfadeev very glad to hear that! As @nigini mentioned, I agree another step that would be cool to handle rather sooner then later is closing old issues and PRs. Thanks for keeping this alive!

[sebastian-philipp]

There is an upgrade to Django 2.2 in progress. See #772