[Scummvm-devel] New Forums

James 'Ender' Brown ender at scummvm.org
Sat Oct 15 22:22:10 CEST 2005


> > 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?

The server is automatically backed up nightly by the hosting provider,
and I also do manual weekly backups of the mysql database - which is
pretty much all thats needed.

> 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.

I'll look into it, although probably not straight away. We really want
the new forums up before archiving the old ones.

> > 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.

Of course.

> 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.

I know the WinCE port already has forums off-site, but this sounds good
for the others.

 - Ender
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James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>





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