Will Qt Developer Network gets closed end of 2012?

[goetz]

With a rollout two days ago, including improvements to the tagging system. And Q&A forums are in the pipeline.

[mohsen]

[quote author="Gerolf" date="1321600967"][quote author="mohsen" date="1321537819"]so do you planned for a new release of website?[/quote]

There are new releases all one or two weeks, so what are you looking for?[/quote]

it's long time website is marked with "beta"!

[sierdzio]

[quote author="mohsen" date="1321693820"]it's long time website is marked with "beta"![/quote]

"beta" is the new catch phrase, it means: "come on in, we have cookies!" (in case of QtDN, that is actually "muffins"). GMail was in beta, if I recall well, for 5 years...

[giesbert]

AFAIK Qt DevNet will not stay beta for 5 years :-)
But to get more info, we should ask Alexandra or Marius

[sierdzio]

My point was that the term "beta" is being widely overused, especially on web sites. QtDN is in good shape anyway - whether it should be still called beta is somewhat debatable (then again, I don't really mind whether it is still beta or final - it works just as well). Same was the case with GMail.

[goetz]

Rumor has it that the beta badge may go away in the not so far future... But the "pastries":/forums/viewthread/7463 haven't been ordered yet :)

[mgran]

Alexandra and I argued about the beta tag the other day, we have some big things coming (Qt 4.8 documentation and Q&A forums) that I would like to land before it goes away. We're also quite far along in a security review - important but invisible work.

And once it's gone we should follow in the footsteps of others and provide a per user check box in the control panel in case you want it back ;)

[qxoz]

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1321703877"]My point was that the term "beta" is being widely overused, especially on web sites. QtDN is in good shape anyway - whether it should be still called beta is somewhat debatable (then again, I don't really mind whether it is still beta or final - it works just as well). Same was the case with GMail.[/quote]

Yes, you right.

[giesbert]

[quote author="mariusg" date="1321995986"]And once it's gone we should follow in the footsteps of others and provide a per user check box in the control panel in case you want it back ;)[/quote]

This would be the most important feature we need ;-)
By the way, it could be added now for those, who don't want it, and the default is: checked (which would mean, keep it) ...

[andre]

I think we need a configuration option, to enable and disable such advanced configuration ;-)

[giesbert]

Perhaps a minimum rank to do such things?

[andre]

And of course a badge to go with it: an "I am NOT in beta" badge :-)

[giesbert]

how would you define levels there, how many weeks you are out of beta? And will there also be an "I am still in beta" badge then?

[andre]

We don't need different levels for that badge, I think. We don't either have that for many other badges. Also, I don't see the achievement of not-finding the switch to disable the beta label, so no points (badge) for that.

(Is it friday yet?)

[sierdzio]

[quote author="Andre" date="1322041251"](Is it friday yet?)[/quote]

Close enough ;-)