Steve, I'm not proposing we replace mailing lists, as Jukka pointed out a mailing list has some usages that cannot be replaced by a se.com
-- thomas On 4 October 2013 16:35, Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would hope that this is "in addition to" the mapserver lists not a > replacement to the lists. I just setup my account to forward mapserver > questions to my email account so I can monitor what is happening on gis > stack exchange. I don't find the extra step of logging into stack exchange > as convenient as responding to email, but I have noticed that there are a > lot of questions that get asked there and not on the list. > > -Steve > > > On 10/4/2013 10:23 AM, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Mapserver users list has worked fine for me for several years but I have >> seen that it is no more what it used to be. There are less mails on the >> list and part of the discussion that would be interesting also for users >> (at least power users) has moved into developers list and inside the >> github issues as comments. >> >> Compared with same kind of projects, the Geoserver users list and >> GDAL-dev have remained popular and users do still receive good service. >> >> Somehow it feels that we cannot turn the clock backwards and if users >> have moved away from the mailing lists then they won’t come back and >> Stackexchange feels like a modern and not so bad alternative. >> OpenStreetMap is having their own Help center which is like >> Stackexchange but I do not know if Mapserver is popular enough for >> something similar. Perhaps there are also people who are eager in >> hunting Stackexchange points and prefer that instead of something just >> Mapserver specific. >> >> However, change from mailing list into Stackexchange is not necessarily >> that simple. Of course we have lots of simple problems like “WMS does >> not answer me, why?” with simple answers “Read >> http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html and set "wms_enable_request" "*" >> “ >> >> But then we have rather much stuff like this >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.mapserver.user/51482 >> >> Discussion and problem solving like that does not suit very well into >> Stackexchange, and it is not so easy to find the comments from inside >> the answers. I think that Stackexchange is not an ultimate help desk >> solution. There are also similar sites like Stackoverflow but I do not >> know what differences they have. >> >> “Power-users, would you be willing to participate to another support >> channel?” >> >> I miss-read that “Would you be willing to participate to yet another >> support channel?”. I would say that not really, for me it is enough to >> handle one channel per each project I am following. If Stackexchange >> would be the main channel, then perhaps. I still wonder where would we >> handle the kinky but interesting problems which are not solved without >> using brain and perhaps gathering more information and sample data and >> mapfiles for repeating the problem. >> >> -Jukka Rahkonen- >> >> Umberto Nicoletti wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> I already have a mapserver filter in place on gis.stackexchange.com >> <http://gis.stackexchange.com/> >> >> >> So should it be gis or all stackexchange sites? >> >> I am for gis, as it more relevant to the mapserver community and >> mapserver is already listed in the ads: >> >> http://meta.gis.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1968 >> >> Umberto >> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:32 PM, thomas bonfort >> <thomas.bonf...@gmail.com <mailto:thomas.bonf...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi MapServer Users and Power-Users, >> >> As FrankW pointed out during our FOSS4G presentation, I would like to >> propose that we add stackexchange as an "official" support channel for >> MapServer. You can check and subscribe to mapserver related questions >> here: http://stackexchange.com/filters/90617/mapserver >> >> Why? >> >> - Stackexchange questions and answers are very well referenced through >> search engines, which would avoid recurring questions from being >> brought up on the mailing list >> - The answers get up or down-voted by the community, allowing a user >> to immediately flesh out relevant information for a given question >> - Asking a question on stack-exchange might help new users to seek for >> help, instead of having to subscribe and post to a public mailing list >> (which can be intimidating) >> >> How? >> >> - By referencing stackexchange in our "getting help" documentation section >> - Most importantly, by having MapServer power users subscribe and >> participate to the stackexchange questions, providing answers or >> upvoting correct existing answers. >> >> Users, is this something that you would find beneficial? >> Power-users, would you be willing to participate to another support >> channel, knowing that in the long run the aim is to reduce your >> workload as the most common questions will answer themselves ? >> PSC, should we have some kind of motion to vote and officialise this? >> >> best regards, >> Thomas >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users