[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Sam Spilsbury]

You just started a phpBB vs vB discussion

Maybe this is better. We could have a trial period where both boards are in
place and since they can be converted, we can sync the two forums every day
for the next 2 weeks or so. The forum that has the least problems and most
usage is the one we will use.



On 4/26/07, Will Farrington <kalmwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, but I have better things to do than waste needless hours
> hacking on the source of a phpBB3 board when the same and more can be
> done with far less effort in vBulletin.
>
> Count me out - I'm tired of all this shit in general. Rather than
> concentrating on schoolwork or doing work I get _paid_ for, I was
> offering my time to a project I thought worthwhile. Clearly I was wrong
> in doing so.
>
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 03:40 +0200, Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think this could be a solution that would make most of us happy.
> >
> > 1. Import the Beryl forum into a Section of a clean vBulletin forum.
> > 2. Import the Compiz forum into a Section of the vBulletin forum.
> > 3. Create a phpbb3 forum out of the vBulletin forum with the vB
> converter.
> > 4. The new forum would have 2 readonly sections (Old Beryl forum / Old
> Compiz
> > forum)
> > 5. We can move a thread to a read write section of the new forum, if
> someone
> > of us finds a thread that would be also usefull in the new forum or if
> we get
> > a request to do it.
> >
> > With this solution we could shutdown the old forums, because everything
> would
> > be still accessible in the new forum. I know this means a lot of work,
> but it
> > could work ;-)
> >
> > PLEASE don't start the phpbb3 vs. vB discussion here. Let's concentrate
> here
> > what to do with the content.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
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