What about giving openSUSE community projects a separate forum?
Initially, I want to request such a forum for openSUSE-Education - but I think this is something even for KDE, GNOME and other openSUSE projects.
I’m even fine with a tree structure like:
Community Projects
Education
GNOME
KDE
XFCE
…
Packman(?)
This would make it easier for people finding the right forum for their questions - and easier for people involved in a project to watch for questions/suggestions.
I don’t think that the list above will grow and become confusing over the time as there are not so much active projects. Perhaps this could also something for the openSUSE-Board to decide (a project should file an proposal for getting a new forum here)…
lrupp wrote:
> Hi Forum Admins
>
> What about giving openSUSE community projects a separate forum?
>
> Initially, I want to request such a forum for openSUSE-Education - but
> I think this is something even for KDE, GNOME and other openSUSE
> projects.
>
> I’m even fine with a tree structure like:
> Community Projects
> + Education
> + GNOME
> + KDE
> + XFCE
> + …
> + Packman(?)
>
> This would make it easier for people finding the right forum for their
> questions - and easier for people involved in a project to watch for
> questions/suggestions.
>
> I don’t think that the list above will grow and become confusing over
> the time as there are not so much active projects. Perhaps this could
> also something for the openSUSE-Board to decide (a project should file
> an proposal for getting a new forum here)…
>
> What do you think?
>
> With kind regards,
> Lars
>
> I’m curious why aren’t the existing forums/subforums sufficient? Also,
most developers don’t like forums and prefer mailing lists instead. I’m
not sure setting up forums based off of projects will get them to come.
> lrupp wrote:
>> Hi Forum Admins
>>
>> What about giving openSUSE community projects a separate forum?
>>
>> Initially, I want to request such a forum for openSUSE-Education - but
>> I think this is something even for KDE, GNOME and other openSUSE
>> projects.
>>
>> I’m even fine with a tree structure like:
>> Community Projects
>> + Education
>> + GNOME
>> + KDE
>> + XFCE
>> + …
>> + Packman(?)
>>
>> This would make it easier for people finding the right forum for their
>> questions - and easier for people involved in a project to watch for
>> questions/suggestions.
>>
>> I don’t think that the list above will grow and become confusing over
>> the time as there are not so much active projects. Perhaps this could
>> also something for the openSUSE-Board to decide (a project should file
>> an proposal for getting a new forum here)…
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> With kind regards,
>> Lars
>>
>> I’m curious why aren’t the existing forums/subforums sufficient? Also,
> most developers don’t like forums and prefer mailing lists instead. I’m
> not sure setting up forums based off of projects will get them to come.
Lars, it is probably infinitely easier to add those community projects as
sub-fora under usenet’s alt.os.linux.suse, or create mail lists, or join an
existing similar text only venue and stop asking this “official site” to
accommodate the entire SUSE community of both users (the prime, and almost
only target audience here) and developers.
As most of the hackers/developers already know, using any of those text based
alternative means of collective communications has the added benefit of being
able to avoid the “official” web forum’s gigantic bandwidth needs and the
requirement to sign in every hour, at least.
somebody wrote:
> Lars, it is probably infinitely easier to add those community projects as
> sub-fora under usenet’s alt.os.linux.suse, or create mail lists, or join an
> existing similar text only venue and stop asking this “official site” to
> accommodate the entire SUSE community of both users (the prime, and almost
> only target audience here) and developers.
>
> As most of the hackers/developers already know, using any of those text based
> alternative means of collective communications has the added benefit of being
> able to avoid the “official” web forum’s gigantic bandwidth needs and the
> requirement to sign in every hour, at least.
Well, this isn’t fully true. We do have NNTP which allows
hackers/developers to avoid dealing with the web side if they like.
There are also a few developers using NNTP that come and give their
expertise that I think everyone appreciates. I think one of the biggest
reasons most developers don’t come is because it is just 1 more place
they have to weed through questions to answer instead of working on the
packages they contribute to.
Technically, the forums server allows creating a forum for about any
newsgroup or mailing list. In other words, from a technical point of view,
existing mailing lists could be made accessible through the web here. Of
course, it still depends on whether the owner of this web server (Novell)
and the owners of mailing lists and newsgroups that might be worthwhile
considering do want this to happen.