[Qgis-psc] QGIS forum

[Gary Sherman]

On Jul 11, 2011, at 14:50, Anita Graser <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 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. 

-Gary
GeoApt LLC
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