[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/5/13, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk>:
> Stephen Moore wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5/13/07, *Vasek Potocek* <vasek.potocek at post.cz
> > <mailto: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
> >     <mailto:ryx at ryxperience.com>>:
> >     >>>>> What happens to compiz.org <http://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 <http://forum.compiz.org>
> >     >>>> to opencompositing.org <http://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 <http://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
> >     <http://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??)
>
> Here is a question for you.
>
> We only have a finite number of web developers.
>
> Would you prefer that they spent the next 3 months working on..
>
> a) Creating yet another compiz site (forum, wiki, blog, migrating
> threads etc etc)?

This wouldn't take 3 months. Endless discussions might take that long,
doing things is much faster.

> OR
> b) Creating your flash based settings tool with spinning minicube?
>
> The choice is yours.  I do not mind either way, although option A does seem
> like a bit of a waste of time in the cold light of day doesn't it?
>

B doesn't sound really much more useful either way..