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

[Maxim Dubinin]

Folks,

with  all  due respect, it cannot fit in my head HOW can you shut down
a  mean of communication that was used for 5000 people and continues to
be used.

Don't  mention  spam, slowness,  login pecularities, hosting  -  these
are all minor technical issues, fixable.

How can you divert all these people to SE which has stunning 131
topics tagged with QGIS? Compare it with 3767 topics on the forum.

If  you think SE is much better - ok, let it outrun forum, so that the
latter will die out gradually.

Maxim

Вы писали 19 июля 2011 г., 14:02:38:

jmen>  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

jmen>  +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.

jmen>  you mean redoing www.qgis.org ? (my forehead is covered with sweat at
jmen>  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.

jmen>  +1 for read only
jmen>  +1 for outsourcing the forum
jmen>  
>> 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

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