[Compcomm] Compromise

[Ketil Wendelbo Aanensen]

On 6/22/07, nesl247 <nesl247 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright folks. I know I've been one of the LEAST helpful in reducing
> the arguments, so maybe this will help.
>
> !) We use compiz-fusion.org

If that also means that fusion.compiz.org points to the same place, I agree.

> 2) We use oc.o forums

There is still a lot of people disagreeing with you there. I realise
you have high goals for your community, but I still find this
suggestion unacceptable. Why?

1. It is confusing to not have the forums where the rest is

2. opencompositing.org is a hopeless url. I use it a lot, and misspell
it 30% of the times I type it in. oc.org and oco.org is also taken, so
shortening it would not work.

3. If you want your site to be the place for all compositing, why
focus so hard on Compiz Fusion? That's the biggest of the compositing
projects, and it seems unlikely that other projects will hop on your
project when that means they will exist as a side note.
Suggestion: If you instead asked the different smaller compositing
projects to utilize your site in order to get all the docks,
screenlets, and stuff to your site first, that would likely raise the
odds for them agreeing. I could even, if you'd like, help to spread
the word to different projects that they should support
opencompositing.org.

> 3) Any important posts get manually imported by one of the forum
> admins, by copy and pasting threads. We'll leave it up to you guys to
> tell us what threads are really important. (Not whole threads, just
> the replies/original posts that are useful)

This should happen no matter where the forums land.

> If that happens, and iXce agrees with it, I'm alright with it. If he
> doesn't, he doesn't. You guys wanted compromise, wanted me to be a bit
> more "mature" (normally am unless I'm pissed, in which case, no one is
> really mature while yelling), so here you go.

Actually, I'm pretty mature even when yelling at my 4 year old stepson ;-)

> I know that you don't want to use the oc.o forums, but I don't want to
> use vB to import both forums into each other. (Especially because I
> don't think there is a vB to phpBB3 port yet)

I believe the technical difficulties can be sorted out.
Anyway, on both forums there seems to be a lot of redundant threads
right now. If it were possible to mark threads with howtos and things,
that are still important, I could help with manually setting up the
new threads in the new forums. I figure this will only take a couple
of man/woman hours.

> So please, tell me what you think.

For what it's worth, done for me :)

- Ketil