[Qgis-psc] QGIS forum

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Maxim,

Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2011, 19.23:02 schrieb Maxim Dubinin:
> Hi,
> 
>  Sorry for intruding PSC list, still unsure what are the rules for posting
> for non-PSC people.
> 
>  I think closing forum might be rather irritating thing to do from the
> point of view of people who ARE frequent there and provide/obtain support
> or just read often. 
> 
>  Sorry, but I find reasons not enough convincing for closing and largely
> fixable.
> 
>  You shouldn't just shut the door for over 5000 members (I know some of
> them are bots, but still). Maillists and Stackexchange aren't for everyone
> and forums have their audience that prefers them over other means.
> 
>  To be constructive, (we) NextGIS can offer hosting and maintenance for
> QGIS forum. This hopefully will solve spam and slowness, we can't
> guarantee devs, but one of our developers is already "master" member on
> the forum. We support phpBB forum successfully over 7-8 years
> at http://gis-lab.info/forum so we know the tool.

IMHO forum users will be greatful when we guide them to a better platform. The 
major advantage of gis.stackexchange is the finer granulation of questions. So 
gdal and postgis questions are categorized properly and users will get more 
accurate answers.
It would be great, if you take over the phpBB forum, but I would still include 
a bold message, that new question should be asked in gis.stackexchange or the 
mailing list.

Pirmin

> 
> 
>    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,


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