[GRASS-dev] Should we use GitHub Discussions?

[Stefan Blumentrath]

Hi,

Personally, I tried being active on StackExchange. However, even though I do like to support colleagues using GRASS and the project in general, the GIS SE system somehow put me off. I just did not like the attitude there and would myself not even think about asking questions there...

That said, GitHub discussions can be different. But I still would very much prefer the mentioned option to "modernize" the ML system.

I also think that if people could register at OSGeo (and MLs) with other accounts (Github, Google, ...) that could lower entrance barriers. But that is a different, and probably more complicated (?) issue...

Cheers
Stefan

From: grass-dev <grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Vaclav Petras
Sent: onsdag 10. februar 2021 04:10
To: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Should we use GitHub Discussions?



On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:59 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org<mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:50 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com<mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:01 AM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org<mailto:neteler at osgeo.org>> wrote:
>>
> If we had a presence on StackExchange like QGIS has, we wouldn't be having a discussion about GitHub Discussions in the first place.

Try this:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grass<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgis.stackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2Ftagged%2Fgrass&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd289d555eb8644f3d43b08d8cd716c87%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637485234341778088%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Dyz48Pe%2BEiOOvQUrep6ECt%2BSC3nqjdQMhE31keICWV8%3D&reserved=0>
--> 2,027 questions

I wish this would indicate a healthy community and I wish we would have one there. However, with a small sample from questions with recent activity, I see only a couple of users answering (2 or so; BTW thanks! you know who you are) and from the 2027 questions tagged grass, there are "475 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers" [1]. This does not sound like what is in the original Nyall's email against QGIS using GitHub Discussions which says "there's LOTS of informed users answering all the QGIS questions on gis.stackexchange." [2]. Perhaps even more telling is that no one except myself [3] mentioned GIS StackExchange in this discussion up until now.

[1] https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grass?tab=Unanswered<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgis.stackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2Ftagged%2Fgrass%3Ftab%3DUnanswered&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd289d555eb8644f3d43b08d8cd716c87%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637485234341778088%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vXJOTBmVYkQUaQrCppWC%2BKOx2Zc0A%2FZBvpq%2FDHihlso%3D&reserved=0>
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2021-February/009244.html<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.osgeo.org%2Fpipermail%2Fqgis-psc%2F2021-February%2F009244.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd289d555eb8644f3d43b08d8cd716c87%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637485234341788080%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=6uw%2ByA0iOlGsHjIS4OwE%2BJTuak6D1akR6lNoc1b8l5o%3D&reserved=0>
[3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2021-January/094867.html<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.osgeo.org%2Fpipermail%2Fgrass-dev%2F2021-January%2F094867.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd289d555eb8644f3d43b08d8cd716c87%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637485234341788080%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=bT8voloK2cCwwcXKGe78qt7awV8nLB4JeR0wjnK3HIg%3D&reserved=0>

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