* "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" speeddymon@gmail.com [23/04/06, 11:40:39]:
Yes you do, but personally I hate the appdb, and im rarely ever going to pull up irc even though it is installed, because i dont like having to switch networks back and forth.
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I'm sure that the majority of users (the non-techies anyways) will second most of what I said above. I think the winehq site suffers from information overload (theres waaaay too much info all over it), and so putting a forum in will make things a lot easier to maintain..
How will a forum make maintance easier? I would see that for a Wiki where everybody can edit.. but a forum?
Personally I think all we need is winehq, bugzilla, the mailing lists and the forums. IRC can stay, but lets make it our own server, irc.winehq.org, so that we have some control over what happens.. versus not having any control when the server dies. Come to think of it, I have been netadmin for multiple irc networks, and server admin on several others. Hell most of my C experience was in modifying servers to do what I wanted, and to fix bugs that the devs didn't properly fix... I may be a bit rusty, but I would be glad to get another shell account somewhere and host irc.winehq.org out of my own pocket (maybe with a little help from the fund, but not much), and at the same time I can put the forums on there too..
Two things: * How would getting our own IRC server fix the "having to switch networks back and forth" problem? As opposed to freenode, where I can hang out in #wine-devel, #winehq, #samba-technical and so on, I now need to switch networks if I want to go from #wine-devel to #samba-technical.
* You said some paragraphs before that you didn't like IRC. Why do you suddenly volunteer to run a server?
Just my EUR 0.02 Kai