Hi,
The idea of a user forum was raised on IRC a few weeks ago and Jeremy White suggested we use a web based forum as the newsgroups and mailing lists were too hard to use/outdated.
I've talked to Jeremy Garcia who runs linuxquestions.org and he said he'd be willing to host the forum, probably as a subforum of Software if the Wine project was to officially recognise it and a few developers agreed to keep half an eye on it. I'm willing to do so, I already answer questions on LQ occasionally, and I expect out of all of us here we can rustle up a few more.
The advantages of using LQ would be:
* Only effort for Jeremy Newman would be to apply a patch that links to the forum from WineHQ * It's already very well indexed by search engines, and has a good search facility built in. * It's popular and well known, for some it's a first port of call when the docs don't help. * Wine developers can get a "title" by which they can be recognised in the forums. I think having an entry in the changelog is good enough criteria for this. * Wine tech support already takes place there daily. It might as well be officially recognised.
I'm willing to put the work in to get this started, if people agree it's a good idea - ie I'd write a patch for WineHQ, moderate the forum, write some sticky threads and so on, but obviously I'd need help to actually answer the questions.
What do people think? Good plan? Bad plan? thanks -mike
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Mike Hearn wrote:
What do people think? Good plan? Bad plan?
Never used linuxquestions.org before, but it seems to be a decent site. I think it's a good start for such a forum, it is a quick way to see if it's useful at all without investing a lot of work into it up front. If we feel we need to move it in WineHQ, we can do so later on.
Speaking of such things, from my perspective I would be a lot more interested in a Wiki were we can throw ideas that are not well enough developed to warrant a web page. I've use Moin-Moin before, it is not bad. The only thing I missed was some sort of revision control. What other cool wikis are out there?
Personally I don't think the problem is where the forum is hosted. Installing a forum like for example phpbb is a piece of a cake.
Roderick
On Monday 10 November 2003 16:40, Mike Hearn wrote:
Hi,
The idea of a user forum was raised on IRC a few weeks ago and Jeremy White suggested we use a web based forum as the newsgroups and mailing lists were too hard to use/outdated.
I've talked to Jeremy Garcia who runs linuxquestions.org and he said he'd be willing to host the forum, probably as a subforum of Software if the Wine project was to officially recognise it and a few developers agreed to keep half an eye on it. I'm willing to do so, I already answer questions on LQ occasionally, and I expect out of all of us here we can rustle up a few more.
The advantages of using LQ would be:
- Only effort for Jeremy Newman would be to apply a patch that links to
the forum from WineHQ
- It's already very well indexed by search engines, and has a good search
facility built in.
- It's popular and well known, for some it's a first port of call when the
docs don't help.
- Wine developers can get a "title" by which they can be recognised in the
forums. I think having an entry in the changelog is good enough criteria for this.
- Wine tech support already takes place there daily. It might as well be
officially recognised.
I'm willing to put the work in to get this started, if people agree it's a good idea - ie I'd write a patch for WineHQ, moderate the forum, write some sticky threads and so on, but obviously I'd need help to actually answer the questions.
What do people think? Good plan? Bad plan? thanks -mike
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:15:25 +0100, Sir Roderick Colenbrander scribed thus:
Personally I don't think the problem is where the forum is hosted. Installing a forum like for example phpbb is a piece of a cake.
So go do it. What, you don't have write access to WineHQ? I guess Jeremy will have to do it then. I hope he's not too busy.
Well, I think you see my point - phpBB might be easy to setup, but it still takes time, it still takes hosting, it still takes maintenance. People would need a WineHQ specific login. You'd *still* get random questions at linuxquestions.org as that's a popular general purpose help site.
I think it makes more sense to have the forums run by dedicated forum-runners (that sentance should be shot, i know :)
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