[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-psc] QGIS forum

[Saber Razmjooei]

+1
I spend more time on the forum than in ML. And there are people more
familiar with the format of the forum.

Cheers
Saber

On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 14:02 +0400, Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> Having  spent some time recently answering question on forum I believe there is
>  no  need to close it. Dynamic is good, people are polite,
> questions  aren't  super  precise,  but  valid.  I  should  say I like
> answering there much more then on ML :)
> 
> I believe that  few power users is not a problem of the number of user support
> media,  it  is  a problem of a maturity of the project in general. I'm
> sure  we will have more people who can and will help as QGIS continues
> to  get better and these people will for sure appreciate different media for
> support.
> 
> Maxim
> 
> Вы писали 17 июля 2011 г., 5:08:19:
> 
> GS> On 7/11/11 3:37 PM, Gary Sherman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 11, 2011, at 14:50, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at
> >> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi PSC,
> >>>
> >>> It has already been discussed on developer mailing list: Some action
> >>> has to be taken concerning QGIS forums.
> >>>
> >>> The current situation looks like this:
> >>> - The forum attracts a lot of spam every day.
> >>> - The forum is often down or slow to respond. (Therefor it takes a lot
> >>> of time to remove spam and ban spammers.)
> >>> - Developers don't frequent the forums so we have to forward people to
> >>> the mailing list anyway.
> >>>
> >>> My suggested alternative would be to redirect developer questions to
> >>> the mailing list and user questions to
> >>> <http://gis.stackexchange.org>gis.stackexchange.org
> >>> <http://gis.stackexchange.org>. This would reduce web infrastructure
> >>> complexity for us while at the same time increase our visibility on
> >>> the platform-independent stackexchange site.
> >>>
> >>> Since we are on our way to the next big release, updating our web
> >>> infrastructure and other aspects of the QGIS project, I feel it's
> >>> necessary to address this topic.
> >>>
> >>> Best wishes,
> >>>
> >>> Anita
> >>> _____________
> >> This is the perfect time to address this---the server providing the
> >> forum is going to be decommissioned soon. The forum has provided good
> >> support for many, but as Anita notes devs don't frequent the forums. I
> >> would like to shutdown the server before the end of July.
> >>
> GS> I am back from 11 days off the grid. I have always viewed the forum as a
> GS> viable support mechanism. My comment about addressing the issue was not
> GS> agreement or disagreement with any proposed solutions, but related 
> GS> solely to the need to decommission the current server.
> 
> GS> I think shutting down the forum will be a potential shock to many users
> GS> and will no doubt have negative impacts. Forums are a pain because of 
> GS> bots and spam, however we have a large number of users that rely on the
> GS> QGIS forum for support and information. Maybe gis.stackexchange.org can
> GS> replace the forum---or maybe not. Either way there are two things that
> GS> are certain:
> 
> GS> 1 - the current server will be offline prior to August 10, 2011
> GS> 2 - there will by many unhappy users if the forum goes away
> 
> GS> The community and psc need to decide if we are willing to accept #2...
> 
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