[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Stephen Moore]

On 5/13/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >




Just because a thread is not active NOW does not mean that it
> will not ever become active.


good point

Everyone who has registered and set their preferences to notify
> on new posts will lose all contact and think their feature request/bug
> is being ignored.  Like RYX says, its all very unprofessional and
> sloppy.
>
> Now can you please explain the scope of the forum?
>
> Would it not be a bit strange for compiz users to go to a forum
> called compcomm (or whatever) for support?  Will the new
> forum even support compiz (without the extra plugins and setting
> stuff)?
>
> Nobody has ever explained other than saying that compiz is the
> core, we are different.  If that is the case, then compiz still needs
> a support forum and you are doing the same thing as the beryl
> fork by removing that.
>
>
> > Jeff
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