On Mar 31, 2012, at 6:16 AM, Maxim Dubinin wrote: > -1 > > (signed up for qgis-user to send this email, is it really a good > way to decide ask whether we should close one support media at... another > media) > > I'm surprised it is ignored what actual users of the forum said [0].
It should be noted that only 12 people of the hundreds that used the forum cared enough to vote. This can hardly be viewed as a consensus opinion. > > I'm also surprised how quickly the thread 'how to make forum better' turned > into 'lets close it because we don't like it/don't want to spend time on it'. This issue has been discussed for nearly a year in one form or another. > > I thought such decisions should at least go through PSC voting. While there was no formal vote, the members of the PSC and community have expressed their opinion. Personally I am neutral on whether the forum lived or died. > > [0] http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9025 > > Maxim > >> We could also close the forums and tell everyone to use gis.stackexchange >> instead. That would reduce maintenance necessary on our side. It would also >> increase visibility of QGIS in the eyes of ESRI folks if more QGIS >> questions pop up on stackexchange. >> >> Personally, I would welcome shutting down the forums since it would free >> me of the repetitive work of deleting dozens of spam threads every day. > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Founder, Quantum GIS Chair, QGIS PSC Book: http://geospatialdesktop.com "We work virtually everywhere" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
