[opensuse-project] Announcing the official openSUSE Forums
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 -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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!
Nice. Combining the resources is a nice idea. I am interested in how you (ie the team) will merge the user databases. Are they on different SQL databases? Are you migrating their posting history as well? How do you resolve multiple IDs for one user or two users with the same ID on different servers? How are you handling the NLC aspects? Only English forums? or language specific subforums? Lots of questions... all which are being asked by the guys working on various aspects of the OpenOffice.org stuff. Your solutions to this might help out the OOo groups... or give them some good ideas :-) C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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
Yay! Yet another blow to the competition. Will it be using our existing Novell accounts (used for bugzilla, the wiki, etc..)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
This is good news! Alberto Il giorno mar, 11/03/2008 alle 08.58 -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier ha scritto:
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
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On 3/11/08, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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.
It's a good news and showing up that openSUSE community growth much better. Which forum engine will be used ? is this an existing one from current 3 biggest forum or build another one ? In my perspective, Vbulletin [0] is the best forum engine right now. It has a complete feature and optimize for big community. The one I usually used is Zimbra Forum [1]. Whatever the engine will be used, I glad to heard this news. After Zonker joined as openSUSE community manager, there is a number of improvement to the community. Just take it as an opportunity to bring openSUSE community much bigger. [0] : http://www.vbulletin.com/ [1] : http://www.zimbra.com/forums/ -- Best Regards, Masim "Vavai" Sugianto /************************************************************/ Blog (ID) : http://www.vavai.com/blog/index.php Blog (EN) : http://www.vavai.net Community : http://www.opensuse.or.id Commercial : http://toko.vavai.biz Email : vavai@vavai.com /************************************************************/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Masim "Vavai" Sugianto escribió:
In my perspective, Vbulletin [0] is the best forum engine right now.
No way, have you ever seen the Vbulletin code ? scaaary... I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.. I would suggest the following alternatives: http://fudforum.org/ http://www.ultimabb.com/ http://punbb.org/ ohh.. and ensure that you dont use phpBB, I repeat, dont use phpBB or you will regret it !! my dog writes better code than that :-P -- "Morality is merely an interpretation of certain phenomena — more precisely, a misinterpretation." - Friedrich Nietzsche Cristian Rodríguez R. Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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.
Has this already happened or is it work in progress? I tried getting a list of groups from news://forums.opensuse.org/, but it timed out. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On 2008-03-12 13:26:39 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Has this already happened or is it work in progress? I tried getting a list of groups from news://forums.opensuse.org/, but it timed out.
it will be a webforum afaik. not nntp. darix -- openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux openSUSE is good for you www.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2008-03-12 13:26:39 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Has this already happened or is it work in progress? I tried getting a list of groups from news://forums.opensuse.org/, but it timed out.
it will be a webforum afaik. not nntp.
The forums from forums.novell.com are all available over nntp. I don't really mind, but it would be a shame to shut that down. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Op woensdag 12 maart 2008, schreef Per Jessen:
Marcus Rueckert wrote:
On 2008-03-12 13:26:39 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Has this already happened or is it work in progress? I tried getting a list of groups from news://forums.opensuse.org/, but it timed out.
it will be a webforum afaik. not nntp.
The forums from forums.novell.com are all available over nntp. I don't really mind, but it would be a shame to shut that down.
They are available on news://support-forums.novell.com/ . -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Freek de Kruijf wrote:
The forums from forums.novell.com are all available over nntp. I don't really mind, but it would be a shame to shut that down.
They are available on news://support-forums.novell.com/ .
Thanks, I've just tried that - AFAICT the groups are exactly the same as under news://forums.novell.com ? /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
Op woensdag 12 maart 2008, schreef Per Jessen:
Freek de Kruijf wrote:
The forums from forums.novell.com are all available over nntp. I don't really mind, but it would be a shame to shut that down.
They are available on news://support-forums.novell.com/ .
Thanks, I've just tried that - AFAICT the groups are exactly the same as under news://forums.novell.com ?
Which can be expected because both names have the same IP-address: 130.57.5.50 -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:58:53 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
merge into the new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org.
Has there been any discussion about the board structure yet? For example one of the current forums has a "Software" category which is terrible broad, the next has "Desktop Environments" which is better and the third has a "KDE" one which is the best for me if I want to glance over hot KDE problems threads. Bye, Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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Stephan Binner wrote:
| On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:58:53 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
|> merge into the new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org.
|
| Has there been any discussion about the board structure yet? For
example one
| of the current forums has a "Software" category which is terrible
broad, the
| next has "Desktop Environments" which is better and the third has a
"KDE" one
| which is the best for me if I want to glance over hot KDE problems
threads.
Yes, it has been discussed, and Keith made an internal proposal everyone
(involved into the process) agreed on.
It has not been considered to put it up to discussion and feedback on
the lists (not that anyone was against it, it just didn't cross anyone's
mind AFAIK).
cheers
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~ -o) Pascal Bleser
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Felix-Nicolai Müller wrote:
| The question if the ichains account will be used to log onto the forum
| has never been answered I believe?
SSO through iChain (or OpenID at some point) is clearly a goal.
Still working on the process, Wolfgang is currently hacking something to
merge suselinuxsupport.de and suseforums.net
After that, there will be a migration and merge into iChain.
| So, how will authentication be ensured and how will it be ensured that
| no one grabs a members / officials name
iChain + the custom tools that will be written to merge and migrate the
accounts into iChain.
cheers
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participants (13)
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Alberto Passalacqua -
Bryen -
Clayton -
Cristian Rodríguez -
Felix-Nicolai Müller -
Freek de Kruijf -
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier -
Justin Haygood -
Marcus Rueckert -
Masim "Vavai" Sugianto -
Pascal Bleser -
Per Jessen -
Stephan Binner