On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:25, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On 23 Oct 2003, Jeremy White wrote:
Further, I think it may be time to recognize that cool looking forums are what users expect; that mailing lists and newsgroups are really becoming the 'old' way of doing things.
I for one don't think highly of other forms of forums, but this is not the issue. I think we should fix the gateway, and also
The gateway is a dead issue. Back in the day it was pretty nifty to get listed on USENET. Unfortunately newsgroups these days are a mess, and IMO should go away. I intend to not look into it any further.
provide one of these fancy forums. If people like them, all power to them. In fact, I think we should implement the Slashcode (or something similar) for the News box. Would be very nice to see the reactions of people to important news that happen in the community, but are not *that* important to start a thread about on wine-devel.
The software I mentioned to Jer that we could implement is Phorum. http://phorum.org/ I've played with it in the past, and integrating it into the current site is dead easy.
As far as slashcode goes, we already have a news system. all someone needs to do is submit articles to be posted. Just submit a patch to wine-patches in the news XML format I use, and I will most likely add it.