[Qgis-developer] Re: forum.qgis.org

[jr.morreale at enoreth.net]

 On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:50:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just my 2c:
>
> - +1 for moving wiki into redmin if Otto is agreeable

 +1

> - Regarding joomla logins - we dont really encourage community logins
> / commenting on posts etc on the joomla site so I would not worry
> about spending time on it (for ldap integration I mean). Ultimately I
> would like to discard joomla and use our Django infrastructure to do
> the content management. Then we would really only be managing two web
> infrastructures: redmine and django. But that is something for the
> future.

 you mean redoing www.qgis.org ? (my forehead is covered with sweat at 
 this idea)

> - Regarding the forums I would alos like to get rid of it but have
> also come across people in Real Life who have found them (and Anita,
> forum Queen :-) ) to be extremely helpful in getting started. I would
> suggest to make the forums read only with a big banner asking them to
> post to stack exchange rather as an interum solution. Also the fine
> folks from the Russian FOSSGIS community (Maxim et al) have offered 
> to
> maintain the forums for us if needed.

 +1 for read only
 +1 for outsourcing the forum
 
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Saber Razmjooei
> <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
>> One comment I came across today on the forum:
>> "but THANK YOU A LOT.
>> This forum has made getting into QGIS easier. As soon as i can
>> contribute with help myself, i will do so"
>>
>> I am impartial, but we need to think carefully before shutting it 
>> down.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Saber
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 09:47 +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
>>> Marco thinks that the community members who take care of the forum 
>>> could
>>> decide such a change. But it is always possible to send a mail to 
>>> the PSC list
>>> and ask for their view. Since Gary didn't step into the discussion 
>>> and it's
>>> "his" forum, I would suggest that Anita sends a mail to the PSC 
>>> list.
>>> The technical tasks would be
>>> -posting an info message to the forum
>>> -make the forum read-only
>>> -Update qgis.org pages to point to gis.stackexchange
>>> -Optional: Changing the DNS entry for forum.qgis.org
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Pirmin
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, um 12.37:07 schrieb Anita Graser:
>>> > Is this something that should be decided by the PSC or rather by 
>>> the
>>> > community? I guess only Gary can shut the forum down or turn it 
>>> read-only.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Anita
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Paolo Cavallini
>>> <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
>>> > > Il 05/07/2011 11:26, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto:
>>> > > > I've played a bit with gis.stackexchange and think it's 
>>> really a good
>>> > >
>>> > > idea to
>>> > >
>>> > > > use it.
>>> > > > Instead of forum.qgis.org we could use
>>> > > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis
>>> > > > as starting point.
>>> > >
>>> > > +1 for me.
>>> > >
>>> > > > IMHO there is no realistic solution with *one* login. 
>>> Migrating forum
>>> > > > and
>>> > >
>>> > > wiki
>>> > >
>>> > > > would reduce logins by one or two (depending whether the user 
>>> has an
>>> > >
>>> > > OpenID
>>> > >
>>> > > > login). According to the docs, Joomla also supports LDAP 
>>> logins
>>> > > > (http://docs.joomla.org/LDAP), so OSGEO logins could used 
>>> there, too.
>>> > >
>>> > > Anything simpler is better.
>>> > > Thanks.
>>> > > --
>>> > > Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc