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== Status ==
== Status ==


* [[User:Sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]] is leading an effort to package askbot and all its build time and runtime dependencies for Fedora. The goal is to get an instance of it running in say http://ask.fedoraproject.org and serve as a forum for questions and answers.  The dependencies are useful for various other projects as well.  
* [[User:Sundaram | Rahul Sundaram]] is leading an effort to package askbot and all its build time and runtime dependencies for Fedora. The goal is to get an instance of it running in say http://ask.fedoraproject.org and serve as a forum for questions and answers.  The dependencies are useful for various other projects as well
 
* 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 answer other user's questions and we don't have to moderate the answers.  Thanks to Spot for helping with a quick response.  


* Rahul Sundaram is in touch with the upstream developer, Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny.fadeev gmail) who is willing to help out with the integration with Fedora Account System.  He has made some changes upstream to make it easier to integration with a external authentication system.  Refer to http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html for more details.   
* Rahul Sundaram is in touch with the upstream developer, Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny.fadeev gmail) who is willing to help out with the integration with Fedora Account System.  He has made some changes upstream to make it easier to integration with a external authentication system.  Refer to http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html for more details.   


* 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 answer other user's questions and we don't have to moderate the answersThanks to Spot for helping with a quick response.  
* Prasad.J.Pandit has added support for Fedora Authentication System (FAS) in Askbot.  These patches have been sent upstream.  Upstream has agreed to make auth support extensible so that we can plugin FAS auth support without having to patch AskbotWaiting to hear back from upstream on progress.  Rahul Sundaram will followup as needed.  


* Theming needed
* Theming needed.  Will request the Fedora design team for help when Askbot and dependencies are in the Fedora repo


== Who uses Askbot? ==
== Who uses Askbot? ==

Revision as of 21:09, 25 June 2011

http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum similar to Stackoverflow or Yahoo Answers. It is written in Python and Django. You can file bug reports via http://bugs.askbot.org/ and the source code is at https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/. It is developed and maintained by Evgeny Fadeev

Status

  • Rahul Sundaram is leading an effort to package askbot and all its build time and runtime dependencies for Fedora. The goal is to get an instance of it running in say http://ask.fedoraproject.org and serve as a forum for questions and answers. The dependencies are useful for various other projects as well.
  • 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 answer other user's questions and we don't have to moderate the answers. Thanks to Spot for helping with a quick response.
  • Rahul Sundaram is in touch with the upstream developer, Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny.fadeev gmail) who is willing to help out with the integration with Fedora Account System. He has made some changes upstream to make it easier to integration with a external authentication system. Refer to http://askbot.org/doc/askbot-as-reusable-django-application.html for more details.
  • Prasad.J.Pandit has added support for Fedora Authentication System (FAS) in Askbot. These patches have been sent upstream. Upstream has agreed to make auth support extensible so that we can plugin FAS auth support without having to patch Askbot. Waiting to hear back from upstream on progress. Rahul Sundaram will followup as needed.
  • Theming needed. Will request the Fedora design team for help when Askbot and dependencies are in the Fedora repo

Who uses Askbot?

Also WindRiver (Intel) has a internal instance running

Review requests filed 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