[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Stephen Moore]

On 5/14/07, Guillaume Seguin <guillaume at segu.in> wrote:
>
> 2007/5/13, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
> > Stephen Moore wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/13/07, *Vasek Potocek* <vasek.potocek at post.cz
> > > <mailto: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
> > >     <mailto:ryx at ryxperience.com>>:
> > >     >>>>> What happens to compiz.org <http://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 <http://forum.compiz.org>
> > >     >>>> to opencompositing.org <http://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 <http://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
> > >     <http://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??)
> >
> > Here is a question for you.
> >
> > We only have a finite number of web developers.
> >
> > Would you prefer that they spent the next 3 months working on..
> >
> > a) Creating yet another compiz site (forum, wiki, blog, migrating
> > threads etc etc)?
>
> This wouldn't take 3 months. Endless discussions might take that long,
> doing things is much faster.
>
> > OR
> > b) Creating your flash based settings tool with spinning minicube?
> >


i say both :D

(nah, just kidding, option b FTW :D)

> The choice is yours.  I do not mind either way, although option A does
> seem
> > like a bit of a waste of time in the cold light of day doesn't it?
> >
>
> B doesn't sound really much more useful either way..



yes it does :D

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