<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 20 Jun 2016, at 16:31, Matthias Kuhn <<a href="mailto:matthias@opengis.ch" class="">matthias@opengis.ch</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 06/20/2016 03:59 PM, Giovanni Manghi wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Yves,<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">FYI, note that you can ask everywhere on #QGIS IRC channel or the list. We are<br class="">several on these lists also able to give this mantra.<br class=""><br class="">The process is really easy.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">it is easy for who knows irc, and is used to use it.<br class="">Asking a common user this additional step is a good way to make them<br class="">quit the process immediately, at least this was the impression I had<br class="">the other day when I was showing to a class how to report qgis bugs.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I completely agree with Giovanni.<br class=""><br class="">I imagine the situation where I start using a new application and want<br class="">to get into contact with the project.<br class="">If the first thing I have to do is to go to a website that looks like<br class="">1985 and then I'm instructed to get some random mantra on IRC... I'll<br class="">forget about the "get in touch" idea. Maybe I will continue to use the<br class="">software. But I'll certainly continue with a feeling that this project<br class="">is a bit quirky.<br class=""><br class="">Compare this to the impression one gets from using QGIS when it comes to<br class="">the application (which is widely perceived as user friendly from what I<br class="">hear) or looking at the QGIS homepage or listening to QGIS<br class="">presentations. We have great, professional looking material.<br class=""><br class="">Let's face it. It's 2016. It's time to move on.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m in the ‘don’t think mantras are a good approach’ camp too. I believe Jürgen is going to work with you guys (in particular Giovanni and Matthias) to get a migration path to GH Issues so that we don’t need to make users deal with OSGEO sign up process + have the benefit of a nice modern issue tracker.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="65" width="59" apple-inline="yes" id="FEE605D9-5A81-4FE1-BB6C-A257B4C06ECB" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:879A6E78-CA46-47B2-AA0E-1810BD833229" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---<br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>