Agreed. I have also noticed the fragmentation of the community, but I've not noticed there being a central authority. This forum seemed to be the closest to actual technical support even though I'm still unsure who's running the show.
An idea I have been toying with is helping build an awareness of Hugin and aiming for something similar to what Blender 3D has become. I had intended to create a [new] Hugin Support Group on Facebook complete with instructions and tutorials, as exposing more people to the software would expand use and probably bring in more programmers to contribute and refine the code. Having said that there are two problems with that idea - first I do not yet possess adequate techincal knowledge of the functionality to offer worthwhile advice or solve real issues that would occur. Mostly I'd just help with usage hurdles, and second it could possibly cause problems for the developers as the development structure is not very clear to me. Basically I'm not the best person to lead a group like that. The software itself is already so good that I prefer it over ptgui! My recent projects that have caused me so much grief would not stitch and export properly on ptgui - I have no idea why, but hugin at least gave me the exrs that you (frequent visitor) know I haven't shut up about for a year now. With a few more refinements it could be made into a truly awesome tool. So, in my opinion - a dedicated hub for the community to gather along with developers, testers and artists would really go a long way to easing the load on the devs, i believe. On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:17:02 PM UTC+2, Caetano Veyssières wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm planning to permanently delete my Google account (let's please not > debate that) but mostly, I don't find Google Groups to be a good choice for > a community forum. I just found out about the Hugin section > <https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/hugin> in discuss.pxls.us and I'm > going to go there for now but it's a shame that the community has to be > split in half unnecessarily. > I think the best way to consolidate a community is to migrate the data > from an outdated platform (Google Groups) to a more modern one (e.g. > Discourse). This has been done several times > <https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=migrate+google+group+to+discourse&addon=opensearch> > > for other forums and without diving into that subject I can see that tools > have been made just for that: > https://glot.io/snippets/ehv0azdgrf > https://github.com/pacharanero/google_group.to_discourse > > Personally Discourse is my favorite but almost anything else than Google > Groups will do for me (preferably open source) > -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/8d82ad05-c658-4456-89fc-486151cda574%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
