[FusionWeb] Forum changes

[Alyssa Hung]

On Mon, August 13, 2007 8:50 am, RYX wrote:
> Hi!

Hello!

> The "Development Help" forum seems to be gone and all posts from that
> forum are scattered throughout the Development-forums. It was a general
> help-category for asking development-related questions and I think
> something similar is missing right now. We should either find an
> alternative or bring it back because having all those general things in
> "Core Development" seems a bit off-topic.

What kinds of questions do you suppose would belong in a general
Development Help forum? The forum looks like it's currently structured to
accommodate the three types of development that are most likely to take
place in the Compiz community. So as long as someone is writing some kind
of plugin, then any question relating to it, even if it involves
interfacing with the Core or an adjustment to Core logic, might be okay in
plugin forum, I think.

> The "Packages, FAQ's, and How-To's"-section maybe has a too broad scope.
> It was split up in two different forums and a wiki-page before and I
> think that old way was much more appropriate and user-friendly. A packages
> and a HowTos section should be fairly essential until we have a properly
> filled wiki (FAQ should be collected from other topics and Q&A).

I agree. I see Packages and FAQs/HowTo's as two distinct categories: one
involving the announcement, retrieval, installation, problems,
suggestions, and congratulations concerning specific packages; and one
concerning general guidelines and examples that may be useful to anyone
using packages from any source

> The Questions&Answers forum is gone, too. The alternatives
> "Installation" and "General Usage" somehow would better fit into an
> official documentation, wiki or manual, the Q&A-naming seemed much more
> senseful to me.

I think the term "General Usage" is fine since it means essentially the
same thing as Questions & Answers That Don't Pertain to Installation, but
since the forum was called "Questions & Answers" on both oc.o and
compiz.org(?) in the past, it may be a good idea to keep the Questions &
Answers name for familiarity and clarity.