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@rcomer rcomer commented Sep 14, 2022

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The Google Group is not much used any more, and over in Iris we have been discussing retiring it (SciTools/iris#3860). Do you have any objections to that? Iris have decided to use GitHub Discussions instead. Possibly Cartopy doesn't need anything to replace it as there seems to be quite a lot of Cartopy activity on StackOverflow.

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One less place for users to ask questions, but also one less place that support people need to keep on top of.

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If Iris is moving away from it, seems like a good idea to remove it from Cartopy's docs.

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It looks like google groups are also mentioned: https://github.com/SciTools/cartopy/blob/main/.github/SUPPORT.md so that may be worth updating at the same time?

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rcomer commented Sep 14, 2022

Nice spot @lbdreyer! I have removed that link and also copied the gitter link from the README, as I assume they should be consistent.

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That's fine with me.

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QuLogic commented Sep 14, 2022

We should maybe point to the Matplotlib Discourse which has a Cartopy category: https://discourse.matplotlib.org/c/3rdparty/cartopy/19

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rcomer commented Sep 16, 2022

Since the scope of the 3rd Party section on Matplotlib's Discourse seems pretty similar to what was previously written for the Google Group, I just reused that text.

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rcomer commented Oct 6, 2022

Hi @SciTools/cartopy-devs, is there any more I should do for this one? The Google Group has now been retired.

@dopplershift dopplershift merged commit bbef30e into SciTools:main Oct 6, 2022
@rcomer rcomer deleted the patch-1 branch October 6, 2022 19:25
@QuLogic QuLogic added this to the 0.22 milestone Sep 3, 2024
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