This is Askbot project - open source Q&A system, like StackOverflow, Yahoo Answers and some others. Askbot is based on code of CNPROG, originally created by Mike Chen and Sailing Cai and some code written for OSQA.

Demos and hosting are available at http://askbot.com.

Translators: DO NOT use git to contribute translations!!! instead - translate at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/askbot/.

All documentation is in the directory askbot/doc

To contribute code, please fork and make pull requests.

If you are planning to add a new feature, please bring it up for discussion at our forum (http://askbot.org/en/questions/) and mention that you are willing to develop this feature.

We will merge obvious bug fixes without questions, for more complex fixes please add a test case that fails before and passes after applying your fix.

Notes on using git for Askbot. Please use topic branches only - one per feature or bugfix. Do not add multiple features and fixes into the same branch -those are much harder to understand and merge.

Follow https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo to to learn how to use fetch and push as well as other help on using git.

This fork of the askbot code base includes a [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) definition for use in development. To setup the Vagrant instance, run the following commands

1. from the root of the code base, run vagrant up (will start and setup the VM, this may take a few minutes)
2. once this is complete, run vagrant ssh (this will get you inside the VM)
3. once inside, run sudo setup-askbot (this will setup the initial askbot config and run any outstanding migrations, once again, this may take a few minutes)
4. once that is complete, you can run run-askbot to start the server

For more information on Vagrant and the typical Vagrant workflow, see its [documentation](https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/).

Askbot software is licensed under GPL, version 3.

Copyright Askbot S.p.A and the project contributors, 2010-2013.

"Askbot" is a trademark and service mark registered in the United States, number 4323777.