[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Mike Dransfield]

Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 10:08, Stephen Moore wrote:
>   
>> On 5/13/07, Vasek Potocek <vasek.potocek at post.cz> wrote:
>>     
>>> Jeffrey Laramie napsal:
>>>       
>>>> On Saturday 12 May 2007 18:52, Mike Dransfield wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:35, Franz Rogar wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> 2007/5/11, RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com>:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> What happens to compiz.org? Is it now deprecated? I don't
>>>>>>>> understand how exactly the new forum is meant to integrate with the
>>>>>>>>                 
>>> compiz-website
>>>
>>>       
>>>>>>>> - if it is at all. If it isn't - what do compiz users do if they
>>>>>>>>                 
>>> want
>>>
>>>       
>>>>>>>> support? Go to the opencompositing-forums? That is a highly
>>>>>>>> unprofessional presentation of compiz and its greatness.
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> I'm 100% with you. Just why not do a redirection from
>>>>>>>               
>>> forum.compiz.org
>>>
>>>       
>>>>>>> to opencompositing.org? Just an idea (not very elegant but... a
>>>>>>> solution).
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> This should work fine.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Would this involve deleting all the posts on the current forum?
>>>>>           
>>>> No, I think the current compiz forum should be "frozen" as a RO
>>>> subforum
>>>>         
>>> of
>>>
>>>       
>>>> the opencompositing.org forum. As I said earlier, it's possible to
>>>>         
>>> import the
>>>
>>>       
>>>> current forums using vB, but I think a RO link as a subforum gives us
>>>>         
>>> nearly
>>>
>>>       
>>>> the same benefit without the effort of:  import-compiz + import-beryl +
>>>> convert vB to phpbb2. If Rico and Arturo port the current compiz forum
>>>>         
>>> theme
>>>
>>>       
>>>> to the combined forum, we can change the link on compiz.org and the
>>>>         
>>> combined
>>>
>>>       
>>>> forum will become part of the compiz site.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>         
>>> What about topics not influenced by the change, e.g., Screenlets and
>>> maybe "Ideas / Feature requests"? There are some
>>> open discussions there.
>>>       
>> what if the really active ones are ported to the new forums and then give a
>> month or so when people can nominate particular threads to be ported to new
>> forums, after which no new threads can be ported....
>>
>> seeing as it's only a small forum (especially when compared to the old
>> beryl forums, that shouldn't be too hard??)
>>     
>
> I agree with you and Vasek and I think it would be great if we could import a 
> few of the important threads and keep them active. I just don't know how 
> difficult it is to import individual threads. Maybe some people with better 
> sql/php skills than I have can comment on the feasibility of doing this.
>   

Well - I have over 10 years experience in both of those, does
that count?

I know I have said this before and been told that I an just being mean
but it will be VERY VERY hard, in fact it will have to be done manually
and will take a long time.

It would be next to impossible to just push a button and everything
migrate.  There is more than just threads in a forum.


> Jeff
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