[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

Guillaume Seguin guillaume at segu.in
Thu Apr 26 06:54:43 EDT 2007


You wouldn't believe how much I agree with you...

Regards,
Guillaume

2007/4/26, jug <frustbox at gmail.com>:
> Please! Stop these discussions! There were more than enough arguments for
> both already.
> We have a Web-Team. Let them decide once and for all, make an official
> announcement what they decided and drop the subject.
> Having phpBB3 up and running is kind of an announcement and then again it's
> not, because the decision (WHY this decision) is not clearly documented. At
> least I have not seen any.
>
> That's all I'm asking for - we need teams that are allowed to make decisions
> for the community, because if everybody has his own ideas how things should
> work then you'll never get done with anything. See how vB was bought and set
> up by some soloing before a decision was made. That can not be acceptable.
> Ultimately I think we need a democracy.
>
> I know this will not always be perfect. People disagree with decisions and
> maybe wrong decisions will be made, but there will be progress. And that is
> better than endless discussions without any progress and therefor with
> people getting bored, frustrated and then leave the project.
>
>
> On 4/26/07, Stephen Moore <delfick755 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > i like this idea :D
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/26/07, Sam Spilsbury < smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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