[Qgis-developer] forum.qgis.org

[Carson J Q Farmer]

I think we have to be careful here, there are a lot of users out there who don't use mailing lists as a general rule. Mailing lists tend to be a bit more of a 'commitment' than forums, and I think we'd be alienating a lot of users if we drop the forums completely... Is there anyway to set it up so that forum questions are routed to the mailing list, while still appearing to be within the forums for those that prefer this? A new forum structure would probably be fine/nice, but mailing lists tend to be quite 'developer-centric'... I prefer mailing lists myself... But many of my students are 'afraid' or weary of them...

On the other hand, the mailing list format works well for the R project...

Just some thoughts to throw around before we completely abandon the forums... And possibly some users...

Carson

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Carson J. Q. Farmer
ISSP Doctoral Fellow
National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
www.carsonfarmer.com

On 27 Jun 2011, at 05:36 p.m., Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> +1 from your forum mod ;)
> 
> Anything that reduces complexity in our web infrastructure is a plus. The forums attract a lot of spam (= work cleaning up) and I feel like there's a much bigger audience following the mailing list anyway.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Anita
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Some time ago it was mentioned that forum.qgis.org should be replaced.
> Why not simply redirect to
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/qgis-user-f2036571.html ?
> Regards
> Pirmin
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