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| Sep 12, 2010 at 11:40 | vote | accept | xenoterracide | ||
| Sep 8, 2010 at 5:36 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | @Michael .... since it keeps coming up... maybe you could make a meta announcement that the code to migrate isn't written yet, since I'm sure you know more than I at this point. | |
| Sep 6, 2010 at 7:38 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | I talked to Robert about getting migration options early and he said the code isn't written yet, so the discussion is kind of moot anyway -- I was ok with moving Ubuntu questions to their SE, but closing Ubuntu questions as off-topic definitely isn't a good idea | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 21:12 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | @xeno Well, if you're going to say Debian stuff belongs here instead of on Ubuntu, that's probably 90% of their questions. I know you're really anti-separation, but if a majority of possible questions are accepted on both sides this is going to get really confusing | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 20:35 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | @Michael I just read both of those question. One would apply to all debian based distro's (except for the bonus part, which I don't know) and the other seems largely pointed at a samba question and would apply to any linux exactly the same. This is why I don't want to do this, it's too hard for us to tell what should be migrated. | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 19:31 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | @xeno Right, I didn't mean to imply all questions tagged [ubuntu] belong on the other site. Questions like this and this seem like they definitely do though; they're Ubuntu-specific | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 19:00 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | @Michael my problem with migrating to ubuntu, is that it's going to be hard to figure out what to migrate which way. you shouldn't just do it by tag. Example: I tagged a networking question 'ubuntu' because I know networking scripts are some what distro specific. but tbh I also know that that question may only be specific to debian based distro's, not being a debibuntu user it's hard for me to judge. Technically everything on ubuntu is ontopic here... it will probably be hard to judge what's general enough. | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 18:53 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | @Michael just an FYI part of the reason I feel this way is because I wast starting to feel like there was a question "Is this unix enough" all the time... it's much easier for us to say "If it works on unix it's unix enough, but there's might be a better place to ask" | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 18:43 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | @Michael it's not a philosophy of more questions for more questions. It's a philosophy of not saying something isn't 'unix' just because it runs on a non unix platform. | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 16:51 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | As for the part about the Ubuntu SE, I don't think (but I'm just guessing) that most users are consciously thinking "hmm, should I post this on Ubuntu or on Unix?"; I think it's very likely they don't even realize both exist. The odds of that will increase over time, as more people find the sites through Google or promotional links instead of through Area 51. I think us ("us") choosing not to merge but choosing to each allow questions on our sites that clearly belong on the other is about the worst way we could handle it; we either need to merge or we need to keep the sites separate | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 16:48 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek Mod | I'll go with most of what you said, but I really don't buy into the philosophy that we should have more questions just to have more questions. Linux questions are on-topic on SU, but I never go there, because SU also covers every other possible use of hardware and software, and I don't feel like wading through all that to find the questions that actually interest me. If our circle gets wide enough that we're accepting questions like "how do I change my proxy in Internet Explorer" just because it's possible to run IE in Wine, I'm not going to very interested in this site | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 14:03 | history | edited | xenoterracideMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 5, 2010 at 13:48 | history | edited | xenoterracideMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 5, 2010 at 2:30 | answer | added | Michael MrozekMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 21:53 | comment | added | xenoterracide Mod | this site is called "unix" not "not windows", let that be the litmus test, does it involve, or run on a unix? then it must be unix. Are there better places to ask? maybe, but that depends. | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 20:38 | answer | added | moberley | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 4, 2010 at 19:37 | history | edited | xenoterracideMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 4, 2010 at 18:51 | history | asked | xenoterracideMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |