[Compcomm] Forum issues

[Jon Barnett]

I think I have an appreciation for all that has been said before with
regard to the retain/ditch existing knowledge in the old forums - :) but
let me just try to summarize:
Some people want to have the compcomm forums clean and dedicated only to
the new stuff
Some people want to have the old stuff available (in the new forums)

Again from a user perspective, I think there needs to be a solution that
satisfies the support need for people still using/working
with/installing the old stuff until compcomm exists in reality, in so
far as we can install it and totally replace what we have working
now. :)

I also think, as I stated in the forum, that I don't think it would be
such a bad idea to have the histories available at least in the short
term. The discussions and the knowledge accumulated may not be "useful"
for support of the new code, but since it documents in some part the
evolution of the plug-ins, it might be useful in recording where code
"dead-ended" in the evolution chain and why historically decisions were
made. Certainly, the tuning of X11 settings for cards/platforms are
still a useful asset (and what symptoms are cured by the settings) -
this is just an example of where retained knowledge would be useful
(until documentation can be formalized). I know I did many searches to
get the set-up right for my hardware - to stop glitches, know when video
memory was used up, and how to mitigate that, etc.

Whether or not this has to go in the compcomm forum, or is on a separate
forum/server would be the question - assuming you want to preserve the
historical knowledge base.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

JonB