The QGIS Forum is closing

Stack Exchange with 'QGIS' search

Forum QGIS akan tutup

Sejak 25.3.2012 selepas melawati plugins.qgis.org, saya merasa terdapatnya perkembangan semasa. Hari ni, berita hagat seperti diatas ternyata pada Forum QGIS dimana mulai 30.3.2012, ianya akan tutup dan hanya berfungsi sebagai laman bacaan sebelum dipindahkan thread-thread yang penting sebagai FAQ. Sebaliknya, pelawat yang ingin tahu lebih mengenai QGIS diminta pergi ke gis.stackexchange dan membuat search "qgis' seperti dibawah. Sedihnya melihat forum ni tutup kerana ianya merupakan tiang siber kedua bagi QGIS. Ini tidak bermakna QGIS akan gulung tikar cuma usaha dan kemungkinan besar, input kewangan sedang disalurkan kepada perkara-perkara yang lebih utama. Perubahan bukan perkara baru. Mereka yang kerap ke laman QGIS juga perhatikan Blog QGIS telah tutup digantikan dengan Planet QGIS serta bagi yang berminat chat: adanya freenode IRC. Well, masih ada QGIS MALAYSIA untuk sanjungkan bendera QGIS flag di Internet dan jangan kata saya tak nasihat kerana terdapat banyak rujukan yang baik pada "Links" kat QGIS MALAYSIA.

Terkini: Perkara ni telah saya bincang kat Linkedin dan Werner M berkata "The main reason for not having our "own" forum is that we just do focus the development into QGIS and we do not have enough developers maintaining all those (even free) forum software. It takes a lot of time to invest to keep the forum SPAM free (thankfully Anita did that in the past) but I also see the investment of time to just answer questions is more valueable and important than maintaining a forum keeping it spamfree (without any time left to answer questions) stackexchange is a very good place to answer questions and the best thing is .. THEY are taking care of keeping it spamfree."

The QGIS Forum is closing

Since the 25.3.2012 after visiting plugins.qgis.org, I felt movement in the air. Today, a visit to the QGIS Forum is greeted with a hot news as shown above. It appears the QGIS Forum will close beginning 30.3.2012 as a read only site "until such time that significant threads have been migrated to a FAQ". Instead viewers interested in qgis matters are asked to go to gis.stackexchange and make a "qgis' in the search box as shown below. I am sad to see it go because to me it has always been a second cyber pillar for QGIS. This in no way implies QGIS is going to shrivel up soon merely that efforts and probably financial input are being concentrated on more critical issues. But changes are not new. Those who frequent QGIS homepage will have noticed the QGIS Blog gave way to a QGIS Planet and for chatterboxs: a freenode IRC chat Well, there is still QGIS MALAYSIA to champion the QGIS flag over the Internet and don't say I didn't tell you there are many good references under "Links" at QGIS MALAYSIA.

Update: I discussed this matter at Linkedin and Werner M. replied that "The main reason for not having our "own" forum is that we just do focus the development into QGIS and we do not have enough developers maintaining all those (even free) forum software. It takes a lot of time to invest to keep the forum SPAM free (thankfully Anita did that in the past) but I also see the investment of time to just answer questions is more valueable and important than maintaining a forum keeping it spamfree (without any time left to answer questions) stackexchange is a very good place to answer questions and the best thing is .. THEY are taking care of keeping it spamfree."