Hi Allan The question is which WG would that be? Sad to say but I don't believe there is any group that has a more holistic view of the software side of things and is actually willing to go through the gyrations of producing a budget and then spending the money (just see the osmosis near debacle), maybe way back it was the EWG, but that was more than a decade ago.
Back to the specifics: the askbot fork of QSQA, the software running on the help site, is not hyperactive but not totally dead either and I should note that the software stack it uses isn't particularly exotic either. There is no reason to believe that we couldn't migrate to that and get some support from the developer (for money obviously). It would make a lot more sense than any other alternative outside of shutting the whole thing down (which would be the OSM way). Simon Am 20.05.2020 um 23:17 schrieb Allan Mustard: > > Simon, et al, if money is required from the OSMF, could not one of the > working groups submit a funding request for migration to a new > platform like StackExchange? Microgrant is probably not appropriate > for something like this. Just my two cents' worth. > > apm > > On 5/20/2020 4:42 PM, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: >> Send talk mailing list submissions to >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> talk-ow...@openstreetmap.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of talk digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying >> (Mateusz Konieczny) >> 2. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Tom Hughes) >> 3. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Lester Caine) >> 4. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Simon Poole) >> 5. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Tobias Wrede) >> 6. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Frederik Ramm) >> 7. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (Tobias Wrede) >> 8. Re: our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying (James) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 15:48:27 +0200 (CEST) >> From: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> >> To: Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> >> Cc: Talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying >> Message-ID: <m7mkuqh--...@tutanota.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> >> >> >> May 20, 2020, 09:28 by l...@tobias-wrede.de: >> >>> Can we involve any of the OSM organizations to find, maybe pay, someone? >>> >> The question is about the plan. Life support for this specific platform? >> >> It sounds like an endless pit that can consume plenty of resources, >> but maybe I am too pessimistic. >> >> Migrate to Stack Exchange? Even assuming that this company will agree >> it has plenty of potential issues. >> >> Wait for someone to volunteer and fix? It would be nice, but not sure what >> are chances of that. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20200520/1710766f/attachment-0001.htm> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 15:12:58 +0100 >> From: Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> >> To: Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com>, Tobias Wrede >> <l...@tobias-wrede.de> >> Cc: Talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> >> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying >> Message-ID: <15f2bcdf-981f-19e7-224f-8b92f6574...@compton.nu> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed >> >> On 20/05/2020 14:48, Mateusz Konieczny via talk wrote: >> >> >>> Migrate to Stack Exchange? Even assuming that this company will agree >>> it has plenty of potential issues. >> They have a public process for proposing new sites: >> >> https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq >> >> So long as enough people are interested it shouldn't be an issue. I've >> been through the process with another site. >> >> Tom >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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