[Qgis-developer] Re: forum.qgis.org

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

I agree, we need a simple infrastructure with only a few applications to
maintain. I like the ideas to

- move the wiki to redmin
- make the forums read only and ask users to post to stack exchange
- keep Joomla as it is and migrate to Django in the future. We don't
  need ldap integration here at the moment.

Regards,
 Otto

Am Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:50:54 +0200
schrieb Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:

> Hi
> 
> Just my 2c:
> 
> - +1 for moving wiki into redmin if Otto is agreeable
> - Regarding joomla logins - we dont really encourage community logins
> / commenting on posts etc on the joomla site so I would not worry
> about spending time on it (for ldap integration I mean). Ultimately I
> would like to discard joomla and use our Django infrastructure to do
> the content management. Then we would really only be managing two web
> infrastructures: redmine and django. But that is something for the
> future.
> - Regarding the forums I would alos like to get rid of it but have
> also come across people in Real Life who have found them (and Anita,
> forum Queen :-) ) to be extremely helpful in getting started. I would
> suggest to make the forums read only with a big banner asking them to
> post to stack exchange rather as an interum solution. Also the fine
> folks from the Russian FOSSGIS community (Maxim et al) have offered to
> maintain the forums for us if needed.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Saber Razmjooei
> <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
> > One comment I came across today on the forum:
> > "but THANK YOU A LOT.
> > This forum has made getting into QGIS easier. As soon as i can
> > contribute with help myself, i will do so"
> >
> > I am impartial, but we need to think carefully before shutting it down.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Saber
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 09:47 +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> >> Marco thinks that the community members who take care of the forum could
> >> decide such a change. But it is always possible to send a mail to the
> >> PSC list and ask for their view. Since Gary didn't step into the
> >> discussion and it's "his" forum, I would suggest that Anita sends a
> >> mail to the PSC list. The technical tasks would be
> >> -posting an info message to the forum
> >> -make the forum read-only
> >> -Update qgis.org pages to point to gis.stackexchange
> >> -Optional: Changing the DNS entry for forum.qgis.org
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Pirmin
> >>
> >> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, um 12.37:07 schrieb Anita Graser:
> >> > Is this something that should be decided by the PSC or rather by the
> >> > community? I guess only Gary can shut the forum down or turn it
> >> > read-only.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Anita
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Paolo Cavallini
> >> <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
> >> > > Il 05/07/2011 11:26, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto:
> >> > > > I've played a bit with gis.stackexchange and think it's really a
> >> > > > good
> >> > >
> >> > > idea to
> >> > >
> >> > > > use it.
> >> > > > Instead of forum.qgis.org we could use
> >> > > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis
> >> > > > as starting point.
> >> > >
> >> > > +1 for me.
> >> > >
> >> > > > IMHO there is no realistic solution with *one* login. Migrating
> >> > > > forum and
> >> > >
> >> > > wiki
> >> > >
> >> > > > would reduce logins by one or two (depending whether the user has
> >> > > > an
> >> > >
> >> > > OpenID
> >> > >
> >> > > > login). According to the docs, Joomla also supports LDAP logins
> >> > > > (http://docs.joomla.org/LDAP), so OSGEO logins could used there,
> >> > > > too.
> >> > >
> >> > > Anything simpler is better.
> >> > > Thanks.
> >> > > --
> >> > > Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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