[pgrouting-dev] Adding stackexchange to our support channels

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ha! you are way ahead of me as usual. Thanks.

On 10/4/2013 9:28 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
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>     Any thoughts on doing this for pgRouting?
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> I thought we already do this:
> http://pgrouting.org/support.html
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgrouting
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> ... at least I'm answering there from time to time.
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> Daniel
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>     On 10/4/2013 6:32 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
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>         Hi MapServer Users and Power-Users,
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>         As FrankW pointed out during our FOSS4G presentation, I would
>         like to
>         propose that we add stackexchange as an "official" support
>         channel for
>         MapServer. You can check and subscribe to mapserver related
>         questions
>         here: http://stackexchange.com/__filters/90617/mapserver
>         <http://stackexchange.com/filters/90617/mapserver>
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>         Why?
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>         - Stackexchange questions and answers are very well referenced
>         through
>         search engines, which would avoid recurring questions from being
>         brought up on the mailing list
>         - The answers get up or down-voted by the community, allowing a user
>         to immediately flesh out relevant information for a given question
>         - Asking a question on stack-exchange might help new users to
>         seek for
>         help, instead of having to subscribe and post to a public
>         mailing list
>         (which can be intimidating)
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>         How?
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>         - By referencing stackexchange in our "getting help"
>         documentation section
>         - Most importantly, by having MapServer power users subscribe and
>         participate to the stackexchange questions, providing answers or
>         upvoting correct existing answers.
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>         Users, is this something that you would find beneficial?
>         Power-users, would you be willing to participate to another support
>         channel, knowing that in the long run the aim is to reduce your
>         workload as the most common questions will answer themselves ?
>         PSC, should we have some kind of motion to vote and officialise
>         this?
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>         best regards,
>         Thomas
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