[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 10:08, Stephen Moore wrote:
> 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??)

I agree with you and Vasek and I think it would be great if we could import a 
few of the important threads and keep them active. I just don't know how 
difficult it is to import individual threads. Maybe some people with better 
sql/php skills than I have can comment on the feasibility of doing this.

Jeff