[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Sam Spilsbury]

Ok. People.

Old threads will not be big deals. I remember when the Beryl-site went
ka-poof. Yes it was pretty bad but that allowed us to move on from old
ideas. This software is changing rapidly so It's likely that posts
from a month ago wont be relevant. If people want their support
questions answered - just put up a big fat notice on the Compiz forums
that say "If you've got problems - heres the place to post them."
Users lost are really no big deal if they are inactive since the
active ones will find out about the merge anyways.

We did this with the Beryl forums and we are not trying to enfore our
ways on you. It's just not that hard to let go. ;-)

On 5/13/07, Mike Dransfield <mike at blueroot.co.uk> wrote:
> Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Just because a thread is not active NOW does not mean that it
> will not ever become active.
>
> Everyone who has registered and set their preferences to notify
> on new posts will lose all contact and think their feature request/bug
> is being ignored.  Like RYX says, its all very unprofessional and
> sloppy.
>
> Now can you please explain the scope of the forum?
>
> Would it not be a bit strange for compiz users to go to a forum
> called compcomm (or whatever) for support?  Will the new
> forum even support compiz (without the extra plugins and setting
> stuff)?
>
> Nobody has ever explained other than saying that compiz is the
> core, we are different.  If that is the case, then compiz still needs
> a support forum and you are doing the same thing as the beryl
> fork by removing that.
>
>
> > Jeff
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