Hi Ross,
Ross Gardler wrote:
On 17 June 2011 00:00, Andy Brown<[email protected]> wrote:
I have seen references to "user facing" web items, web pages, wiki and
mailing list. What will happen to the forum at
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ ? It is an very useful user
facing asset that I would hate to see lost. If it is transfered what will
be require from those that provide assistance there? Will the moderators be
required to committers? Thus requiring an iCLA?
There are many other things to consider in this question:
- will infra@ be willing to host an instance of the software
- can we migrate the content?
- is it under a suitable licence to allow migration
- is the forum approach the right solution today
- and many more issues
Ross
I know from conversations that the forum is hosted on Oracle servers, in
Germany, if I am not mistaken. The Admin is an employee of Oracle. The
moderators are from all over and volunteers for the most part. If it
can not hosted on Apache servers then I am afraid that it will be lost
and all the help that it has for users. "Is a forum the right solution
today", good question but I have seen flame wars break out over that
very topic in some mailing list. I prefer mailing list but understand
why end users prefer a forum so I would support us keeping it.
Andy
