On 8/18/06, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forums can represent another venue for that informal (but useful) communication that we want to have. I agree that we want overboard with the existing site having too many forums, but let's not go to the other extreme. :-)
Oh did I remove too many forums? :)
Drupal has an "Advanced Search" feature that would help you refine searches pretty much any way you want.
http://plonetest.haiku-os.org/search/node
We just need to make it visible. :-)
So, IMHO, searches not giving you the content that you are looking for should not really be much of a concern.
Most users will just enter the search text into the mini search form, get too many results, and get annoyed...we'd have to customize Drupal if we want to exclude forum posts, by default (don't know how difficult this will be). Is it such a big problem if we keep the forums in phpBB?
The next problem is that we risk having a multi-lingual site where the translations are "unofficial" and possibly out of date and incomplete. OTOH, a community site shouldn't be so unprofessional, either. We can only maintain translations for languages with enough volunteers and that's the same situation as with a community site...
What else would be necessary for a community site? And wouldn't it be better to have a separate community site with extra features like email accounts, personal blogs, etc.. That would even attract people outside of the Haiku community and it gives us a chance to introduce them to Haiku. I doubt that we can offer this on the official site without overloading it.
Bye, Waldemar Kornewald
