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 were too hard to use/outdated.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
