[Compcomm] A possible forum merge proposal

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/4/26, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
> Sorry for earlier post... What I meant to say was
>
> 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.
> >
>
> This has already been suggested before and personally I am
> not happy to spend so much time going over old ground.
>
> I do not want the compiz forums that we have built up AGAIN
> to just be dumped because some people want to continuously
> keep building a new one (because people like new things)
>
> I think it is a total waste of everyones time when we should be
> concentrating on what compiz needs (ie. documentation, howtos
> new plugins, decorators etc etc)
>
> The last thing we need to do is spend hours and hours pushing
> forums about.  The same thing happened at your last hard drive
> crash.  All the users were really keen to save everything but there
> was no interest because it would be too much work.  In the end
> it all disappeared.
>
>

Basically this wouldn't happen with the bi-daily backups we are doing
now ;) And this solution wouldn't take much time...