[pgrouting-dev] Adding stackexchange to our support channels

[Daniel Kastl]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> wrote:

> Any thoughts on doing this for pgRouting?
>

I thought we already do this:
http://pgrouting.org/support.html
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pgrouting

... at least I'm answering there from time to time.

Daniel




>
> On 10/4/2013 6:32 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>
>> Hi MapServer Users and Power-Users,
>>
>> 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>
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> - 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)
>>
>> How?
>>
>> - 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> best regards,
>> Thomas
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