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

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

So if the decision is the status-quo :

- let's make easy to join it > I've suscribed to the forum today and it 
was painfull as the registration code is extremely difficult to read (I 
took me 10 attempt and the anti bot question hard to reply when you 
don't have an english mindset (I replied "3" instead of "third"...it 
tooks me while to figure it out)
- let's make it clear that for the dev part, the dev-ML is better suited 
so we don't let potential contributors without reply for months

On the fr version of the website, I'll add two external links pointing 
to active french-speaking boards.

Le 17/07/2011 03:08, Gary Sherman a écrit :
> I am back from 11 days off the grid. I have always viewed the forum
> as a viable support mechanism. My comment about addressing the issue
> was not agreement or disagreement with any proposed solutions, but
> related solely to the need to decommission the current server.
>
> I think shutting down the forum will be a potential shock to many
> users and will no doubt have negative impacts. Forums are a pain
> because of bots and spam, however we have a large number of users
> that rely on the QGIS forum for support and information. Maybe
> gis.stackexchange.org can replace the forum---or maybe not. Either
> way there are two things that are certain:
>
> 1 - the current server will be offline prior to August 10, 2011 2 -
> there will by many unhappy users if the forum goes away
>
> The community and psc need to decide if we are willing to accept
> #2...