On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:26:40AM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
2. Will it take resources away from other SUSE tasks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think we first need to decide how to proceed, we can discuss that afterwards, before doing what we're actually going to decide.
Yes, it will take some resources away if we decide to have a _new forum_: - - hosting, installing the web forum software - - maintaining it (tuning, keep up with security patches)
Any estimates on this? Also: what timeframe are we talking about? Launch with 10.1 or rather with 10.2?
3. Do we create a new forum or do we elect one of the existing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We're pretty much going nowhere on this issue, as opinions seem to be 50/50. I have expressed my gripes about creating a new one. I think that would alienate the existing forum community and really wouldn't be a nice move.
As we are asking them, we are not alienation them. This does not mean we have to do whatever they tell us to do. It is just extra feedback and perhaps they come up with solution we did not think about.
On the other hand, having a single forum "forum.opensuse.org" has advantages:
This sounds like a OR/OR situation. AND/AND is possible. With DNS a lot can already be done. A bif disadvatage brought up by the meeting and not in the discussion is in how far openSUSE or Novell can say an external webforum is official if it has no real control over it (exept pointing their DNS elsewhere). It could become a legal jungle. The owners of the webforum could start selling advertisementspace to the competition, they could discuss things not allowed, on openSUSE fora. I am afraid the only possible two solutions are 1) link to the existing ones and have no official webforums, just as done now on http://www.opensuse.org/Communicate 2) Bring form.openSUSE.org into existence
4. Internationalized forums ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Should we have one official forum per language ?
This is just as technical as wether or not to have NNTP or email possabilities, so I won't go there, yet. houghi -- A CONS is an object which cares. -- Bernie Greenberg.