and i wonder why it is required that persons who wish to read the group
discussions are required to join the group in order to do so?
well, that is inconsistent with the way the forums themselves are set
up…in those anyone can read, but only members may post (in the http,
and any non member can post via nntp)
why are the openSUSE groups so un-open?
(what are they doing in there behind those log-in-required doors?)
and, are their special Terms & Conditions, behavior expectations for the
groups? (i can’t find those in the FAQ)
> Apparently I can’t even look at those pages unless I log in?!
correct…
> Is there some public description of what these groups are?
there is now:
The Happy Penguins - 1 Member, 0 Messages - A group of happy penguins
mostly (but not restricted to) people with little or no professional
knowledge of system /hardware programming. Just everyday users who enjoy
working/having fun/playing/doing_whatever with OpenSUSE linux and open
source softwares. Anyone can Join also linux experts.
Compelling Linux - 3 Members, 1 Message - Gather together and post
compelling features, code, packages, source, and anything else that will
compel a linux user.
Hackers and Creators - 38 Members, 7 Messages - Linux is such a
versatile operating system the opportunities to do something neat, and
cool with it are practically boundless! People are always coming up with
new, fresh and exciting ideas on setting up their systems to do neat things.
Like using their computer and a webcam as their own home security system
that emails them when something happens.
A friend just got a circuit board to and is setting up a system to alert
him when somebody opens his mailbox.
So what interesting, neat and even quirky “hack” have you done?
Mono / .NET Developers - 14 Members, 4 Messages - While Mono is still
viewed cautiously by some, .NET developers rejoice the opportunity to
take their language and use them in a large selection of platforms.
Mono allows developing in C# just about anywhere; Linux, OS X, iOS and
Android for starters.
People who use .NET and/or Mono and also use any Linux can talk about
programming in this language from what they do, what they’ve learned,
question on best practices, news on the project, anything.
Southern California SUSE Users - 16 Members, 5 Messages - This is a
group for the Southern California openSUSE community to interact, learn,
and GROW from and with each other. Use this group to collaborate on
ideas, ask for help, share FOSS/Linux/openSUSE news or other info,
generally chat… and as always: Have a lot of fun!
SUSE Metallers - 78 Members, 51 Messages - Programmers && Linux
developers… You need to be a member of this group to view its
contents and, i’ve just noticed that i can view some of the other
groups after logging into the forums, but without joining other
groups…my earlier post saying you had to join a group was based on
only trying to read the group (to discover what a “SUSE Metaller” is,
anyway ???)
opensuse_zh (Invite Only Group) - 1 Member, 0 Messages - Group for
obs://home:opensuse_zh *You need to be a member of this group to view
its contents
> And is it possible to use NNTP to participate in them?
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:10:48 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> And is it possible to use NNTP to participate in them?
No, they’re not part of the gateway configuration and AFAIK cannot be
because of how the vBulletin CMS works and how the gateway was originally
written (pre-CMS).
On 10/12/2012 03:07 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
> No
i’d say considering the current level of participation in
forums.o.o/groups an inability to access via nntp is not a problem…
rather than wanting nntp access i was more surprised to learn the groups
even existed…i don’t recall the announcement of their availability…
i do faintly recall a question years ago about why nothing happened if
one clicked on the forum’s Community > Groups, iirc the answer was
something like: we don’t use the social media aspects of the forum
software…
> i’d say considering the current level of participation in
> forums.o.o/groups an inability to access via nntp is not a problem…
I was answering Dave’s question about whether they could be accessed via
NNTP.
> rather than wanting nntp access i was more surprised to learn the groups
> even existed…i don’t recall the announcement of their availability…
There probably wasn’t; the implementation was part of the vBulletin 4
upgrade IIRC, and we didn’t make a general announcement of “what’s new”
when that upgrade took place, as we applied it primarily for the security
fixes that were included.
