[Scummvm-devel] New Forums

[Eugene Sandulenko]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:54:36 +0800
"James 'Ender' Brown" <ender at scummvm.org> wrote:

> Hey ya'all.
> 
> Have people had much of a chance to play with the test forums at
> http://forums.scummvm.org/ yet?
> 
> Apart from a problem with activation e-mails, which has fixed, whats
> the opinion of launching it with 0.8.0?
That is indeed a great idea, moreover we have a week for that. Another
question is backups. How that is going to be handled?

> Obviously, the old forums will have to be maintained as an archive,
> and we'll be starting from scratch here. It would be possible to
> import posts from SF.net, but I'm more inclined to just link to the
> existing forums as an archive due to a variety of technical issues.
Yeah, problem is that we can't go and blindly create all accounts of
users which participated in discussion. Probably some searchable text
archive could be created? At least it would be nice if somebody
(you?) post a support request to sf.net so they will dump all our
forums into downloadable tarball. I remember they advertised once
that they can do it.

At least we need means of disabling future posts to sf.net forums.

> Some functionality that I'm sure most of us use is missing, namely
> e-mail notifications, but I'll patch the forum for that soon.
Ugh. Preferably before launching, please.

> All that really needs to be decided is a list of what forum
> categories we want.
I think we don't really need development-related forum, scummvm-devel
serves good.

What I may suggest additionally to our Help and General discussions a
big group "Ports" could be created with separated forums for PalmOS,
WinCE, SymbianOS, PSP and Others created.

> Just think! Stickies/Announcements, real admin, banning and moderation
> functionality.... :)
Awww... My dreams will come true.


Eugene