Potential forum at linuxquestions.org

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Personally I don't think the problem is where the forum is hosted. Installing 
a forum like for example phpbb is a piece of a cake.

Roderick

On Monday 10 November 2003 16:40, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The idea of a user forum was raised on IRC a few weeks ago and Jeremy White
> suggested we use a web based forum as the newsgroups and mailing lists
> were too hard to use/outdated.
>
> I've talked to Jeremy Garcia who runs linuxquestions.org and he said he'd
> be willing to host the forum, probably as a subforum of Software if the
> Wine project was to officially recognise it and a few developers agreed to
> keep half an eye on it. I'm willing to do so, I already answer questions
> on LQ occasionally, and I expect out of all of us here we can rustle up a
> few more.
>
> The advantages of using LQ would be:
>
> * Only effort for Jeremy Newman would be to apply a patch that links to
> the forum from WineHQ
> * It's already very well indexed by search engines, and has a good search
> facility built in.
> * It's popular and well known, for some it's a first port of call when the
> docs don't help.
> * Wine developers can get a "title" by which they can be recognised in the
> forums. I think having an entry in the changelog is good enough criteria
> for this.
> * Wine tech support already takes place there daily. It might as well be
> officially recognised.
>
> I'm willing to put the work in to get this started, if people agree it's a
> good idea - ie I'd write a patch for WineHQ, moderate the forum, write
> some sticky threads and so on, but obviously I'd need help to actually
> answer the questions.
>
> What do people think? Good plan? Bad plan?
> thanks -mike