On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Hardy Ferentschik <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24-Jun-2016 14:06, Burr Sutter wrote:
> > We are attempting to get a public forum started.   I can generate a lot
> of
> > newbie questions, but we need some folks to answer :-)
> >
> > https://developer.jboss.org/thread/271221
>
> OOI, why developer.jboss.org? This is the worst choice possible imo.
> There is a whole range of things wrong with developer.jboss.org( eg speed
> and the actual editing experience).
>

We already had the infrastructure for hosting forums at jboss.org

developers.redhat.com is basically a "static site", so you we took a
short-cut and leverage existing infrastructure.


>
> But that apart, how do you see anyone signed up for developers.redhat.com
> contribute to this forum? So I am currently logged in to
> developers.redhat.com
> and follow this link - https://developer.jboss.org/en/products/cdk/ - from
> http://developers.redhat.com/forums/.
>
> Looking at the banners I have the impressions I am still in the
> developers.redhat.com
> context. But hey, I am logged out. Trying to now log in again, get me to
> this error
> page:
>
> >>>
> Duplicate account
>
> You are trying to log in via duplicate account. Please use your master
> account.
> Master account is hardy.ferentschik.
> >>>
>
> So it seems that there are conflicts between my JBoss account and the
> Developers
> Red Hat one. But even then, say I did not have a JBoss account, would I
> now have to
> register to one in order to participate in the blog? And how does one
> know. The
> whole L&F is kept in a way to suggest you are still on Red Hat Developers.
>
> It keeps amazing me how many logins, re-directs, license agreements, etc
> one has to
> jump using developers.redhat.com. This is patch work at best.
>

We do have a lot of usability work to do.


>
> If I'd tried the site having no ties to Red Hat, you'd already lost me.
>

:-)

Do you have a concrete proposal on how to "fix it"?

Assume nothing...we made a big push on "features" for
Summit/DevNation...now we have lots of "clean up" to sort out.



>
> --Hardy
>
>
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