[Qgis-psc] Rethink using github discussions?

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Nyall,

discussions were activated recently by Tim, if I'm not wrong.

I have no strong opinions about it,  one good thing is that we can move
tickets (from the bug tracker, for example any time a user wrongly post a
question instead of a report) to discussions. We cannot move questions
wrongly posted in the tracker to SE. Not saying that this alone justify
keeping discussions, just pointing that is a nice feature.

cheers

-- G --




On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 11:20 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi PSC!
>
> I'd like to raise discussions about whether or not it's a good move to
> be allowing the github discussions feature on the QGIS repo:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/discussions
>
> I may be pessimistic, but I just can't see this Stackexchange clone
> gathering the same momentum and expose as gis.stackexchange enjoys. So
> my concern is that by allowing users to ask questions here we are just
> fragmenting the support base and will end up with a whole set of
> unanswered questions on github, simply because there's no-one there
> who is motivated to answer these questions.
>
> In contrast, there's LOTS of informed users answering all the QGIS
> questions on gis.stackexchange.
>
> My summary:
>
> Stackexchange: lots of users, including many from outside the regular
> community. Almost all QGIS questions end up with a knowledgeable
> answer (and if not, there's enough knowledgeable users to vote down
> bad answers). Already a proven working system for end-user QGIS
> support. QGIS is one of the most heavily used tags on the site, and
> the good answers present QGIS in a very positive light.
>
> Github discussions: basically no users, and the only ones looking are
> a subset of the very small, overworked usual crowd. Not a single
> question has an answer. It just looks bad and unmaintained, and
> presents the QGIS project in the poor light of a stagnant open-source
> project which no-one cares about.
>
> Do we REALLY need this feature? Is there any compelling reason to keep
> it active?
>
> Nyall
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