On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Peter Flodin wrote:
2. Will it take resources away from other SUSE tasks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think it is now time to discuss what resources are required to achieve a forum.opensuse.org which is hosted by Novell.
The way I see it, the initial setup would need ~ 1 man week (this includes adding support for iChains to $forum_software => this would enable existing openSUSE.org wiki / bugzilla accounts. + configuration of AppArmor => enhances security). It's really difficult to account for the maintenance -- my guess would be that this is somewhere around 2-3 man days per month, depending on security vulnerabilities, etc. Realistically the creation of a forum would need to be postponed to March.
What is the estimated work hours in setting this up, assuming that hardware is available? What current project would person building a forum server be taken from? Do we want it now? (Is anything within 6 months feasible? Especially as the openSUSE staff has a poor delivery track record for things outside the actual distribution - sorry but this is a current reality that will hopefully be soon broken)
AFAIK this is still to be defined. If we are fine with waiting until early March, I can offer to take the required time to drive the initial setup out of my schedule then. (But ATM I'm like 99% busy with university ;))
It is agreed that active moderators will be community members. We need to establish a mechanism for selecting moderators. With clear processes about appointment, removal, responsibilities etc.
Do we need to form a web forum project team? With their own temporary mailing list to remove all this from the general list.
I'd say yes -- e.g. we need to discuss what kind of sub forums we need to create, etc. Setting up a mailing list shouldn't take too long ;) Henne?
5. Wait for and use Novell's proprietary forums ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Answer: No
This needs to be communicated properly to the according Novell team. Sonja? Regards Christoph