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[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen]

On 6/22/07, Alyssa Hung <deciare at isisview.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand how the stated intent of the merge will be
> upheld. If I'm not mistaken, the intent is to have a single forum that
> will encompass all discussion related to Compiz (+ Fusion).
>
> But if opencompositing.o is to continue existing as a separate project
> (as per Quinn Storm,
> http://www.ubaight.com/pipermail/compcomm/2007-June/001181.html; and
> delfick,
> http://forums.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=803&hilit=), then
> its forums will surely exist as well. Even if all posts, user accounts,
> permissions, and other miscellaneous data are migrated perfectly, what's
> stopping the users from _choosing_ to re-register at opencompositing.org
> and continuing from where they left off?

Nothing is stopping them, except:
1: a notice saying that official support forums is now on
forums.compiz.org / forums.compiz-fusion.org (which could point to the
same place)
2: developer support of the official forums.
3a: hopefully, reducing the number of Compiz Fusion subsections in
oc.org, making it e.g. just "Compiz Fusion talk" (thus merging all
those threads to that subsection,
or 3b: pointing the Compiz Fusion sections over to the official forums.

- Ketil

> It's certainly possible to lock all Compiz-related forums on
> opencompositing.org and make rules that forbid discussion of Compiz
> there, but opencompositing.org can hardly uphold its scope as a place of
> collaboration for open source compositing communities in general if it
> excludes a community as significant as that of Compiz Fusion's. It's
> also generally more productive to make suggestions about what should be
> discussed as opposed to making rules about what cannot be discussed.
>
> It doesn't appear feasible to ensure that Compiz-related discussion will
> take place exclusively on compiz.org. Short of putting (IMO
> unreasonable) rules in place on opencompositing.org, are we prepared to
> accept that there may be people who _choose_ opencompositing.org (and
> distro forums, IRC, IM, and other computer/tech forums, etc.)?
>
>
> ~Alyssa
>
> Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as many of you have already realized, we have 2 forums (forum.compiz.org and
> > forum.opencompositing.org). Nobody really want to give up his forum but it
> > also makes no sense to have both up.
> >
> > My proposal is to merge both forums. Yes, iXce can do this. The admins of the
> > current forums would then be the admins of the merged forum and would need to
> > work together. forum.compiz.org and forum.opencompositing.org would then
> > point to the same forum.
> >
> > I don't know if this would be possible but we could try to create a domain
> > specific style. If not it should still be possible to find a style that would
> > make both sides happy.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
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