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[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Lydia Pintscher<lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 18:20, Erik Hovland<erik at hovland.org> wrote:
>> Something that is left off of the list is how it will help you and anyone
>> else who admin'ed the forums. I only want to consider a move if it will
>> be helpful for the amarok devs. If it ends up being more work, forget
>> it. Otherwise, I welcome our new fko overlords!
>
> - we don't have to do the sysadmin work related to our forum
> - fko team will help us with moderating
> - we will get more people answer questions
> - we get happier users and devs because the forum is less crappy
> - we get a team that actually cares about the forum running smoothly
>
> As there are no objections so far I will get this rolling beginning of
> next week.
> Ian or someone else who has access: Can you get me a db snapshot for
> the forum team to test migration with?

Apart from sentimental feelings (letting go of our trusty forum, sniff
sniff) I also think that this is a good idea. Lately the traffic on
our forum has become too much for us to handle properly.

There's only one more wish that I could think of for the new forum: It
would be nice to get some Amarok branding (e.g. logo) in there. Do you
reckon that this is possible?

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org