http://wpquestions.com/support_open_source/create

Ronald, your ideas are similar to what Scott had suggested to us in some email last week. I think we will combine the best ideas here and the result will be our partnership program.

My sincerest thanks to everyone.

Here’s my suggestion:
1. Allow the plugin/theme developer to register their product with your site.
2. Allow existing experts to request to be “certified” for the product by the original plugin/theme developer.
3. When leaving a question, a user is presented with a text box (which is optional) that allows the user to select the product they need support from. This text box would ideally have auto-complete capabilities and/or real-time search so users can easily select the product.
4. If the product is found, the user is presented two radio boxes. One would say, “I need my question answered as quickly as possible (public immediately).” The other would say, “I’d like to give the original developer time to respond (public after 24 hours).”
5. If the user selects option #2, the developer and certified experts are notified via e-mail when the question has been posted.
6. Allow the developer to make the question public if he/she doesn’t know the answer.
7. Allow the user to make the question public at any time should he select option #2.

The above suggestion eliminates the ownership problem, and also gives the user the choice of allowing the original developer to respond exclusively.

users can already add tags to their questions when they create a question.

Verification is a major issue. As much as possible, we’d like to find a system that works automatically.

Of course, that leaves the issue of verifying which expert owns what tag.