Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-30 Thread L. Rahyen
On Monday October 29 2007 18:18, Steven Edwards wrote: I think long term we might want to see about just killing the users mailing list if the forum proves to be much more popular. NO! I strongly disagree. In fact, I'm pretty active on wine-user. But I never will be active on the

RE: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-30 Thread EA Durbin
Subject: RE: New Wine help and discussion forum From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:43:00 +0100 Hello, Le lundi 29 octobre 2007 à 20:06 -0500, EA Durbin a écrit : [...] I think phpbb is more user friendly than what we

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-30 Thread Steven Edwards
On 10/30/07, Jonathan Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we could explain a little bit more the newsreader way of reading the list in http://www.winehq.org/site/forums. And if you can't be bothered using anything else than a Web browser you can still use

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Jan Zerebecki
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:34:33AM -0400, Tom Wickline wrote: My goal is to provide a forum to bring Wine users together into a single meeting place to discuss anything relevant to the daily happenings surrounding Wine. Does that mean you will make it synchronise with the user mailinglist?

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Steven Edwards
On 10/29/07, Jan Zerebecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean you will make it synchronise with the user mailinglist? I can't speak for Tom on this issue, though I was the one to suggest that he start the forum after the Wineconf discussions regarding the mailing list and newsgroup

re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Kegel
Steven wrote: I can't speak for Tom on this issue, though I was the one to suggest that he start the forum after the Wineconf discussions regarding the mailing list and newsgroup disconnection. So you're the guilty party! Next time you decide to shake up the wine community like that, please

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi, On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But unless we kill the wine-users mailing list, you can't achieve your stated goal of having just one place to post. It does help consolidate all other Wine forum discussion that already goes on everywhere else though. My thinking is to leave

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi, On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're the guilty party! Next time you decide to shake up the wine community like that, please consider discussing the move with the developer community first. Yes...well I plead no contest anyway. I did not gather from the Wineconf

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Tom Wickline
On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do folks think we should try that? Or do people really think we should kill the mailing list and go to a forum? I have never said the first word about killing any mailing list. I put up a forum so users would have a singe place to post to, and

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Kegel
On 10/29/07, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, a single forum and a mailing list is a vast improvement over multiple forums and a mailing list. If you get your way it will be a forum and Google groups, and then you and Google will be the one who kills the Wine user mailing list, not

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Kegel
On 10/29/07, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never said the first word about killing any mailing list. I put up a forum so users would have a singe place to post to... But unless we kill the wine-users mailing list, you can't achieve your stated goal of having just one place to

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Tom Wickline
On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never said the first word about killing any mailing list. I put up a forum so users would have a singe place to post to... But unless we kill the wine-users mailing list, you can't

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 19:18:29 schrieb Steven Edwards: I can't speak for Tom on this issue, though I was the one to suggest that he start the forum after the Wineconf discussions regarding the mailing list and newsgroup disconnection. I think long term we might want to see about just

Re: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Kegel
[Hmm, I thought you wanted to take the discussion offlist, but I see you forwarded to the list. Here's a catchup message.] On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My stated goal is to not increase the number of discussion forums /

RE: New Wine help and discussion forum

2007-10-29 Thread EA Durbin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: New Wine help and discussion forum Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:10:43 +0100 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I suggested to create a forum because users are familiar with phpbb