Still being discussed - not decided yet - but it looks like we have an interesting proposal on the mailing list about the future for the hibernate forums.

• Put the forum into a read only mode
• Add a banner explaining the move to Stackoverflow (similar in content to what's in the post
  mentioned above)
• Create a Hibernate Team on Stackoverflow
• Make sure all Hibernate related tags and wiki pages are up to date
• Add a "Where-to-post summary" to hibernate.org
• Create a hibernate-discussions mailing list!?
• Update instructions on http://hibernate.org/community/

Discussion: http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/hibernate-dev/2015-December/013827.html