Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Dan, > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:58:36PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: >> Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Given my diminishing work on FVWM, I need to think about handing over the >> > FVWM Forums [1] and the FVWM Wiki [2]. I cannot devote the time needed for >> > their maintenance, nor do I want to act as a point of contact for them >> > anymore. >> >> From my point of view, I'd have no problem with closing them down. >> If you could direct users to the mailing lists, that would be a good >> thing. > > That'd be the simplest solution, yes. But I'm unclear how many users of > FVWM and the forums would welcome that. I was always in favour of closing > it down, but it exists _because_ it's what people wanetd, and still do, from > what I can tell. They're certainly a lot busier than fvwm@ in terms of > questions. > The barrier to sending questions to mailinglists certainly is a lot higher for most people than posting to a forum (whether this is is an imaginary barrier or not is, in the end, irrelevant), which is the main reason I set up the Fvwm forums back then.
If need be I will take over maintaining the forums again. The software is relatively low maintenance (certainly compared to the horror that was phpBB2). It would be nice if there would be some more knowledgeable moderators, my personal use of Fvwm is, to say the least, pretty basic. While I don't foresee a repeat of the issue that forced Thomas to take over maintaining the forum software it would certainly be nice if hosting could remain somewhere where more people have access to it in case of emergency. In other words, if Jaimos doesn't mind it would be nice if the forums could stay where they currently are. > > > The wiki is less important, but there's a lot of documentation which I feel > should make it in to the man pages somewhere if someone is wanting to do > that. > It would be a shame to lose the information stored in the wiki, I find it often more to the point that having to distill that same information form the manpage (assuming it's in there at all). Kind regards, Bert Geens (aka theBlackDragon)
