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

[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?

[Jeremy Largman · Accepted solution]

Update:

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

[Renjith Pillai]

Are the new features of Answers also being pushed into this repo?

[Jeremy Largman]

I'll pull them in every so often. I haven't done these most recent changes yet.

[Peter]

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.

[Jeremy Largman]

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

[Loreno Oliveira]

Jeremy, is there any update about opening atlassian-osqa?

[Andrew Frayling]

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.

[Trevor Hunt]

I'm interested in this as well. Any update?

[Dane Sarcone]

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

[Jonathan Blackburn]

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??

[OmairM]

@Jeremy: Any updates on this?

[Jeremy Largman]

Not yet. We're considering how to handle Q & A in our product portfolio.

[Hung Dinh]

Any update on this Jeremy?

[Trevor Hunt]

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

[Jeremy Largman]

Yes, that's right.

[JamieA]

Nevertheless, and IANAL, but the licence requires that the source code be made available.

[Sean Thayne]

Also very curious.

[Jeremy Largman]

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

[JamieA]

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

[Jeremy Largman]

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.

[Jon Sheppard]

Are you still planning to make this code available for your customers to download and run?

[Jeremy Largman]

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

[Trevor Hunt]

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

[JamieA]

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...?