Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (170 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 04:36:28 pm Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Joe Harmon wrote:
> > If I go out to the Communicate page I see two forums listed as the most
> > popular forums.
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate
> >
> > I don't understand why the Novell sponsored openSUSE forums are not on
> > the front page. It is a very popular and useful forum for openSUSE. It
> > has an NNTP interface and a newly designed web interface.
> > http://forums.novell.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11
> > And it is sponsored and staffed by Novell and community members.
>
> Hi Joe
>
> Is it. Interesting, it's more or less 10 years I'm using and
> contributing heavily to (open)S[uU]SE and it's the first time ever that
> I hear about that forum. I'm not interested in using web forums so that
> might be a reason ;)

The newsgroups were listed for a long time on Communicate page. 
Although, not on the top portion of the screen.

> Note that we pretty much discarded having a Novell-sponsored forum
> because it would be forbidden to link to the most important community
> package repositories (such as Packman) because of the potential legal
> problems involved in doing so (uncrippled packages).
>
> > While I understand why SUSEforums.net is there, I feel that
> > http://forums.novell.com/forumdisplay.php?f=11 should be listed in place
> > of SUSELinuxSupport.de if we are going to limit it to two.
>
> I don't think it was ever the goal to limit it to two. It's just that
> suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de are the best known and largest
> English speaking openSUSE community forums.
>
> As said, first time I hear about Novell hosting an openSUSE forum. Good
> to know I guess ;)
> "I don't understand why [...]" => I don't understand why no one ever
> sent an email like yours on this list before.
> That being done, I think we should add it to the list on the wiki.
> Any objections ?
>
> cheers

Not right now, but when Communicate page get cluttered again, someone will 
object. 

IMHO, to prevent future confusion, like this, on main Communicate page should 
be listed only categories, like mail, newsgroups, forums etc. 

-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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