Jeremy Newman wrote:
Currently the WineHQ server really does not have much space left over. Alexandre and I have had a few issues with the box running out of hard drive space.
I offered space on my box, so space shouldn't be an issue.
We need to know if this is really needed. Is providing a forum really better than: a good FAQ in the Wiki, the forums in the AppDB, Bugzilla, the mailing lists, and finally IRC? We already provide quite a few levels of help.
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. The mailing lists are nice because everything is delivered to my inbox, but they also stink for the same reason.. it floods my inbox. The FAQ in the wiki won't get read by people who don't rtfm (read: most people), so then they will still seek support.
The other issue I have is that just adding a forum, is yet another login/password for users to have. What I don't like about the WineHQ website is that the AppDB and Bugzilla do not share a common login system. Adding a bboard just adds more to this problem.
It doesn't make sense to not have a universal login for the entire site, and even you complain about it.. Just curious, but why are we not able to fix that?
Now, I do not see a reason why the AppDB guys could not use the already written forum in the AppDB to create a not tied to an app forum. Follow me?
For the same reason I posted above.. I personally hate the appdb
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..
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..
Tom