Re: forums.debian.net disabled
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Akis Panas wrote:
> >It is not known when or if or how forums.debian.net will >return.
>
> Will the debian project continue to provide hosting for the debian
> users forum on the same server?
Assuming a set of administrators is willing to care and feed whatever
forum software they decide to use, the DSA team[1] has intimated that
they will be willing to host it.
> If yes does your server allows the use of the last phpbb version?
> Current version is 3.0.4 The forum was running on 2.xx version witch
> is no longer supported by the phpbb team,
> http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1385785
The primary issue is that there wasn't a set of administrators with
time enough to actively care for the forum software to even notice
that this was the case.[2]
> As per the reply comment regarding the level of the forum: Well the
> same applies to the debian lists , do you suggest to shut them down
> also in favor on 10 - 100 members of the troll kingdom?
<<Insert pithy, hypocritical responsible that bites back here>>
Don Armstrong
1: Which doesn't include me
2: Not really their fault either; time doesn't grow on trees.
--
"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
-- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)
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