On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Peter Flodin wrote:
Why not use the existing forums at http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de instead of further fragmenting the SUSE knowledge/reference base?
That's what we first suggested, but it turned out that there is quite a lot of demand to create a central / official forum at openSUSE.org. This is not meant to rule out any existing forum in any way!
Some things about the official openSUSE forums, that I think are required: 1. They should be at opensuse.org. (this doesn't rule out an external forum, as it could be like http://betterdesktop.opensuse.org/ which redirects.)
Right.
2. Same look and feel as openSUSE.org (again doesn't rule out an external forum).
Yes, that's on our list.
3. It should use the same user database as the wiki & bugzilla (ie Novell ID integration), this would rule out an external forum.
Correct ;)
Personally I think a new forum at opensuse.org would be a unifying experience rather than a fragmenting one.
That will hopefully be the case. Regards Christoph