* "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23/04/06, 11:40:39]: > Yes you do, but personally I hate the appdb, and im rarely ever going to > pull up irc even though it is installed, because i dont like having to > switch networks back and forth.
[...] > I'm sure that the majority of users (the non-techies anyways) will > second most of what I said above. I think the winehq site suffers from > information overload (theres waaaay too much info all over it), and so > putting a forum in will make things a lot easier to maintain.. How will a forum make maintance easier? I would see that for a Wiki where everybody can edit.. but a forum? > Personally I think all we need is winehq, bugzilla, the mailing lists > and the forums. IRC can stay, but lets make it our own server, > irc.winehq.org, so that we have some control over what happens.. versus > not having any control when the server dies. Come to think of it, I > have been netadmin for multiple irc networks, and server admin on > several others. Hell most of my C experience was in modifying servers > to do what I wanted, and to fix bugs that the devs didn't properly > fix... I may be a bit rusty, but I would be glad to get another shell > account somewhere and host irc.winehq.org out of my own pocket (maybe > with a little help from the fund, but not much), and at the same time I > can put the forums on there too.. Two things: * How would getting our own IRC server fix the "having to switch networks back and forth" problem? As opposed to freenode, where I can hang out in #wine-devel, #winehq, #samba-technical and so on, I now need to switch networks if I want to go from #wine-devel to #samba-technical. * You said some paragraphs before that you didn't like IRC. Why do you suddenly volunteer to run a server? Just my EUR 0.02 Kai -- Kai Blin, (blin at gmx dot net) Reapply as necessary.
