Dan Kegel wrote:
2008/2/21 Tom Wickline twickline@gmail.com:
[if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular?
Well, let's see: Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031 Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826 Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611 comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many posts or members. wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751
I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude to complete. And even then, you'd be fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc. By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of support in the existing ones.
- Dan
Soo... the obvious thing to do is contact all the major Linux forums with Wine sections, explain that we're trying to set up an official forum, and see if they'll lock their Wine sections and redirect members to the official forum.
If they all buy in, great. If not, keep the status quo.
--mmebane