Hello everybody,
I wonder if this discussion should also be moved to a RFC [1]. What do you think?
If yes, is there anyone willing to draft it detailing background, advantages,
disadvantages and alternatives?
It might be interesting to know how many OSGeo projects use it and how it
works for them. It was mentioned here that QGIS PSC is considering to close it,
but what about others?
my 2 cents
Cheers,
Vero
[1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC
El mié, 10 feb 2021 a las 15:28, Stefan Blumentrath (<Stefan.Blumentrath@nina.no>) escribió:
Hi,
Personally, I tried being active on StackExchange. However, even though I do like to support colleagues using GRASS and the project in general, the GIS SE system somehow put me off. I just did not like the attitude there and would myself not even think about asking questions there…
That said, GitHub discussions can be different. But I still would very much prefer the mentioned option to “modernize” the ML system.
I also think that if people could register at OSGeo (and MLs) with other accounts (Github, Google, …) that could lower entrance barriers. But that is a different, and probably more complicated (?) issue…
Cheers
Stefan
From: grass-dev <grass-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Vaclav Petras
Sent: onsdag 10. februar 2021 04:10
To: Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org>
Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Should we use GitHub Discussions?On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:59 PM Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:50 PM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:01 AM Markus Neteler <neteler@osgeo.org> wrote:
If we had a presence on StackExchange like QGIS has, we wouldn’t be having a discussion about GitHub Discussions in the first place.
Try this:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grass
→ 2,027 questionsI wish this would indicate a healthy community and I wish we would have one there. However, with a small sample from questions with recent activity, I see only a couple of users answering (2 or so; BTW thanks! you know who you are) and from the 2027 questions tagged grass, there are “475 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers” [1]. This does not sound like what is in the original Nyall’s email against QGIS using GitHub Discussions which says “there’s LOTS of informed users answering all the QGIS questions on gis.stackexchange.” [2]. Perhaps even more telling is that no one except myself [3] mentioned GIS StackExchange in this discussion up until now.
[1] https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grass?tab=Unanswered
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2021-February/009244.html
[3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2021-January/094867.html
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