Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 08:58 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE
> Community and to our new users, we're pleased to announce that
> suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at
> forums.novell.com (the three largest English-speaking, dedicated SUSE
> forums) are joining forces to merge into the new official openSUSE
> Forums at forums.opensuse.org.
>
> Behind the scenes, a project team consisting of Novell employees,
> openSUSE Community members, and existing forums' staff have been
> working on this project since the beginning of 2008. The new
> infrastructure will be hosted by Novell to ensure the highest possible
> quality of service.
>
> Current plans are to migrate the existing active members of
> suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de into the official openSUSE
> Forums, simultaneously implementing Single Sign On for the whole
> openSUSE Community. We hope to make the transition as seamless as
> possible, and will go live Spring 2008. More information will be
> posted as available.
>
> All in all, a big gain for the whole openSUSE Community!
>
> Best,
>
> Zonker

I must say, I just visited forums.novell.com and I am very happy with
the format.  In the old days, I used to visit Novell's support forums
and post here and there.  Then they went to a new format which
essentially only allowed you to connect via NNTP reader, thus making the
browser interface a read-only experience.  I stopped going to the forums
after that since I couldn't use NNTP at many customer sites which
blocked that on their firewalls.

I haven't visited since then and thus haven't contributed to the forums
since then.  Now that you've given me cause to check it out again, I see
the forums are once again usable via browser.  I'm looking forward to
becoming a regular contributor once again.

Thanks,
Bryen

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