On Feb 18, 2008 8:53 PM, Christopher Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > L. Rahyen wrote: > > On Monday February 18 2008 19:44:08 Austin English wrote: > > > >> On Feb 18, 2008 12:35 PM, L. Rahyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Of course, there is some people who like forums. If we decide to > >>> create forum specifically for them, it is important to have possibility > >>> to subscribe for receiving all (full) messages from the forum to e-mail > >>> with direct link to reply page for corresponding message, and ability to > >>> login permanently without stupid timeout (using cookies). In fact there > >>> is some forums like this (unfortunately, all of them are unrelated to > >>> WINE) and they are pretty usable (however, personally I like mailing > >>> lists more, and didn't used forums for a long time). Of course, if there > >>> is no volunteer(s) to create and support such forum - then wine-users is > >>> enough I think. > >>> > >> In my experience, the 'older' crowd prefers newsgroups, but 'younger' > >> people prefer message boards. Similar to how more advanced users > >> prefer CLI, but inexperienced/novices use GUI. It seems to me we're > >> trying to help the gui type of person, and a message board would be an > >> easier way to do this, IMHO. > >> > > > > Then what exactly we want? It is useful to decide what we need. For > > example, > > phpBB forum with certain mods/modifications to give functionality I > > mentioned. If we agree with this (or decide to choose something else), then > > we can discuss next details, etc. > > In fact, if we decide to create phpBB forum, I can help here. I have > > programming experience with this in the past, and I can create ready-for-use > > forum if we decide we need this (of course I can make also its design, > > etc.). > > Also, I can give hosting on my server. > > But first, we should make decision what we need. If above offer is > > acceptable, then design details can be discussed farther. If not then what > > is > > acceptable. > > > > > > > > > Why not make a forum and then have winehq link to it? If it becomes > popular maybe it'll become the official one. That's the spirit of the > GPL, the way I see it, don't need popular support or permission. > > >
If everyone seems happy the way wine-forum.org is organized, we could simply add a link on winehq. That way we don't add another forum to the mix, and also have one area that can gather users of wine with winehq's blessing. -Austin