<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">+1<div>for MIGRATING forums to wiki AND using stackexchange for new topics & plugins support.</div><div>Forums are great for novice users but useless for more advanced ones and for plugins maintenance, help & support.</div><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div><div>On 31 Mar 2012, at 16:16 , Maxim Dubinin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>-1<br><br>(signed up for qgis-user to send this email, is it really a good<br>way to decide ask whether we should close one support media at... another<br>media)<br><br>I'm surprised it is ignored what actual users of the forum said [0].<br><br>I'm also surprised how quickly the thread 'how to make forum better' turned<br>into 'lets close it because we don't like it/don't want to spend time on it'.<br><br>I thought such decisions should at least go through PSC voting.<br><br>[0] <a href="http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9025">http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9025</a><br><br>Maxim<br><br><blockquote type="cite">We could also close the forums and tell everyone to use gis.stackexchange<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">instead. That would reduce maintenance necessary on our side. It would also<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">increase visibility of QGIS in the eyes of ESRI folks if more QGIS<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">questions pop up on stackexchange.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Personally, I would welcome shutting down the forums since it would free<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">me of the repetitive work of deleting dozens of spam threads every day.<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>