[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Jeffrey Laramie]

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.

> > > While I'm strongly against the way the new forum was created, I think
> > > it's design incorporates the best features of both the Compiz and Beryl
> > > forums and it uses phpbb3 which many people seem to prefer. I worked on
> > > it a bit last night and added a few categories so that it is better
> > > able to support the compiz-core package. I think all of us are willing
> > > to make further adjustments if there are areas where this layout needs
> > > improvement. For those of you who haven't seen it, you can find it
> > > here:
> > > http://www.opencompositing.org
>
> I'm 100% with you. Only one question: why is a beryl sub-forum on
> CompComm Users forum when there's a Beryl forum? I think it fits
> better on Beryl forum :)

Are you referring to the CompComm->Installing Beryl section? I created that 
since Beryl is still supported and people may still have questions about 
installing it. I'm not sure how valuable it is and I have no objection to 
removing it nobody thinks it is useful.

Jeff