Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (143 mails)

["Kim Groneman" <kgroneman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> But people without desire to use nntp would just continue to use the
> webforum interface, right?  I'm not sure I quite understand why there
> is a learning curve here. 

We're merging three forum sets and the managers/moderators of two of those 
haven't dealt with NNTP integration to date.  Users on the NNTP side aren't 
authenticated like they are on the web side so from a moderator and 
administrator viewpoint, there are things to learn when it comes to controlling 
spam, etc. when it comes from NNTP.

> Aha.  But the three fora (suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the
> openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com) will all be merging onto
> a Novell-run/-owned site = "forums.opensuse.org" ? 

Not quite.  Novell has agreed to host the infrastructure because we have a full 
data center with an IT group and I have a budget for hardware/software 
purchases.  We also have a daily full backup system for MySQL.   It was just 
logical that Novell host the infrastructure.  To say that Novell "owns" the 
site isn't correct.    Ownership is a full collaboration of the 
administrators/staff the made up the individual forums.  I have no more say in 
what happens than Keith or Vir@s.