Pascal Bleser wrote:
It's always easy to criticise and say "you must do this" or "you should do that" or even "you have no clue" when you don't have to set it up, make it work and provide a reliable service.
Oh, will you get off your high horse for second.
Because of that, and purely out of technical reasons, the people who make the service work are the ones to decide on the technology.
I beg to differ. The technology is not just for admins to decide. There are other considerations to take into account than just how to run it. For instance, in the current case, why on earth was http://forums.novell.com/ not chosen as the common platform? Everything is already implemented, almost nothing left to do. But no - presumably the "admins" didn't know that, and decided they needed to reinvent the wheel.
| having openSUSE run a proprietary software is a bad advertisement | for open source (even, may be mostly, if justifiyed), so IMHO we | sould make some sort of effort to try solving this for the future.
Ah, you are proposing to write a new opensource web forum project from scratch, secure from the ground up yourself ? Or to audit and fix and support all of phpBB's source code ?
You clearly need a reality check: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/30
Pascal, is it just me, or are you being unnecessarily aggressive? Do relax for a second, please.
Just to clarify: the announcement wasn't an invitation to discuss which software should be used.
Who are you to clarify the announcement made by somebody else? Besides, we don't need an invitation to have a discussion.
The software to run the forum has already been discussed and selected by the ones who are concerned by its maintenance (primarily Kim, Keith and Wolfgang).
Ah, then I have to repeat my question - why wasn't the existing platform chosen? It's already being maintained .... /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org