[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Stephen Moore]

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??)

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