Is atlassian Answers available for my company? I'd like to use it as a knowledge base
Asked by M:

We need a knowledge base like Atlassian answers and the wiki doesn't really do the right job.

Is Atlassian answers a product we can use?


Answers:
author: Jeremy Largman
body: **Update:**

We've announced Confluence Questions! Check out the Beta: <https://www.atlassian.com/questions>

comments: author: Renjith Pillai
body: Are the new features of Answers also being pushed into this repo?


author: Jeremy Largman
body: I'll pull them in every so often. I haven't done these most recent changes yet.


author: Peter
body: Is this project still active? When I go to the repo I get: "You do not have access to this repository". Is this product already commercial in the meanwhile? Thx.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We hid our fork for the time being. We're in discussions on how to offer this in the right way.


author: lorenooliveira
body: Jeremy, is there any update about opening atlassian-osqa?


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Chance,

Atlassian Answers is built using OSQA - <http://www.osqa.net/> - a free, open source Q and A system. So not an Atlassian product, but something that is available for you to download and deploy at your own organisation.

Hope that helps,

Andrew.


author: Trevor Hunt
body: I'm interested in this as well. Any update?


author: Dane Sarcone
body: Any updates if Atlassian will be releasing "Anwsers" would be nice to have it with a crowd integration. Or even as a beta would great as-well


author: Jonathan Blackburn
body: Yes, I am interested, as well. Too bad - the answers site is VERY nice. I can imagine it being a product in itself (probably what someone is thinking already, I am sure). . . . Maybe, integrated into JIRA and/or Confluence??


author: OmairM
body: @Jeremy: Any updates on this?

comments: author: Jeremy Largman
body: Not yet. We're considering how to handle Q \& A in our product portfolio.


author: Hung Dinh
body: Any update on this Jeremy?

comments: author: Trevor Hunt
body: Confluence questions is the go-forward approach Atlassian is taking to provide a solution. It's currently in beta. You can sign up here: <https://www.atlassian.com/questions>


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Yes, that's right.


author: JamieA
body: Nevertheless, and IANAL, but the licence requires that the source code be made available.


author: Sean Thayne
body: Also very curious.


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We're going through a security audit before opening it up. I'll post back here when I have the code available for download.

comments: author: JamieA
body: Great... GPL is viral isn't it... don't you also have to release code for everything you integrate OSQA with?!


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We've just changed some hard-coded credentials in favor of configurable options for ldap login, that's all. We'll open it up without the hard-coded values.


author: Jon Sheppard
body: Are you still planning to make this code available for your customers to download and run?


author: Jeremy Largman
body: We haven't made progress on it yet, but I'll post back once there's an update.


author: Trevor Hunt
body: I'm interested in this as well. Any update? I see below your last update was April 16th.


author: JamieA
body: I would try to get Jeremy's changes as it's a lot better than it was originally, unless the trunk code has moved on.

I think OSQA is GPLv3, so presumably Atlassian have to contribute the code back...?


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