Hi, I agree, we need a simple infrastructure with only a few applications to maintain. I like the ideas to
- move the wiki to redmin - make the forums read only and ask users to post to stack exchange - keep Joomla as it is and migrate to Django in the future. We don't need ldap integration here at the moment. Regards, Otto Am Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:50:54 +0200 schrieb Tim Sutton <li...@linfiniti.com>: > Hi > > Just my 2c: > > - +1 for moving wiki into redmin if Otto is agreeable > - Regarding joomla logins - we dont really encourage community logins > / commenting on posts etc on the joomla site so I would not worry > about spending time on it (for ldap integration I mean). Ultimately I > would like to discard joomla and use our Django infrastructure to do > the content management. Then we would really only be managing two web > infrastructures: redmine and django. But that is something for the > future. > - Regarding the forums I would alos like to get rid of it but have > also come across people in Real Life who have found them (and Anita, > forum Queen :-) ) to be extremely helpful in getting started. I would > suggest to make the forums read only with a big banner asking them to > post to stack exchange rather as an interum solution. Also the fine > folks from the Russian FOSSGIS community (Maxim et al) have offered to > maintain the forums for us if needed. > > Regards > > Tim > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Saber Razmjooei > <razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk> wrote: > > One comment I came across today on the forum: > > "but THANK YOU A LOT. > > This forum has made getting into QGIS easier. As soon as i can > > contribute with help myself, i will do so" > > > > I am impartial, but we need to think carefully before shutting it down. > > > > Cheers > > Saber > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 09:47 +0200, Pirmin Kalberer wrote: > >> Marco thinks that the community members who take care of the forum could > >> decide such a change. But it is always possible to send a mail to the > >> PSC list and ask for their view. Since Gary didn't step into the > >> discussion and it's "his" forum, I would suggest that Anita sends a > >> mail to the PSC list. The technical tasks would be > >> -posting an info message to the forum > >> -make the forum read-only > >> -Update qgis.org pages to point to gis.stackexchange > >> -Optional: Changing the DNS entry for forum.qgis.org > >> > >> Regards > >> Pirmin > >> > >> Am Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011, um 12.37:07 schrieb Anita Graser: > >> > Is this something that should be decided by the PSC or rather by the > >> > community? I guess only Gary can shut the forum down or turn it > >> > read-only. > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > Anita > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Paolo Cavallini > >> <cavall...@faunalia.it>wrote: > >> > > Il 05/07/2011 11:26, Pirmin Kalberer ha scritto: > >> > > > I've played a bit with gis.stackexchange and think it's really a > >> > > > good > >> > > > >> > > idea to > >> > > > >> > > > use it. > >> > > > Instead of forum.qgis.org we could use > >> > > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qgis > >> > > > as starting point. > >> > > > >> > > +1 for me. > >> > > > >> > > > IMHO there is no realistic solution with *one* login. Migrating > >> > > > forum and > >> > > > >> > > wiki > >> > > > >> > > > would reduce logins by one or two (depending whether the user has > >> > > > an > >> > > > >> > > OpenID > >> > > > >> > > > login). According to the docs, Joomla also supports LDAP logins > >> > > > (http://docs.joomla.org/LDAP), so OSGEO logins could used there, > >> > > > too. > >> > > > >> > > Anything simpler is better. > >> > > Thanks. > >> > > -- > >> > > Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > Qgis-developer mailing list > >> > > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > >> > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer