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We have determined to begin by reorganizing and expanding the forums. Each of the teams - Addons, Module Devs, Communication and Wiki - will be responsible for a forum category. Each team managed category will contain: 1 public forum, 1 work forum and 1 private forum. ...davidl2
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This makes perfect sense and should work very well for me. I understand that the heading on the public related forums will be Addons (public), Devs (public), etc., and will be contained within the same Main heading area.

So a registered member who is not on any team but interested in all aspects can post on relevant issues in relevant areas.

VERY GOOD!

I approve!

BlueStocking
End User Team Member
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BEFORE initiating this change if I wanted to comment on Addons, Wiki, etc., there was no area for me to do that. I could go to the lounge where it was posted this was the place to post things that didn't relate to xoops. Or I could hijack someone else's thread that had nothing to do with the subject matter that I was wanting to respond to.

The people who post there used to be my friends and I enjoyed working with them on projects. Madfish and documentation. Giba with Wiki and test sites for his new XOOPS version, Skenow and his writing the manual for building an XOOPS site.

I am on the XOOPS Team, but I do not hold a position on any other team that is under the umbrella of XOOPS.ORG. I left the Coordination Team as a member for lack of transparency and not having the platform to achieve my goals. My goals are bringing the community together, and providing a service, not widening the riff or having to choose sides.

Davidl2 made a major step in the right direction when he announced AND I COULD RESPOND to the post. It was rare when on XI there was a post that I was interested in that I COULD POST TO.

Does that make it clearer?
I hope so...

RE: what is going on now, it is exactly what XI wanted. The freedom to run the XI site as they saw fit. We all have that now, including XO.

This doesn't bother me, what I am doing is for XOOPERS, not XI or XO. What I do is not site specific, its XOOPS specific.

BlueStocking

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No comprende...

Sept 13th, 2007 _____________ davidl2 << A+++http://xoopsinfo.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=42 Very good. Thanks

Sounds good David, looking forward to all these changes. Thanks for the update.

Yes, we made a discussion private as it was relating to planning issues of the Addons site.

When those issues are dealt with, the details will be released and summerised into the public area.

I admit that the normal policy in this case is to leave a message explaining a thread move, but unfortunately I neglected to do this. (That's been done now)

However, if you wish to join the Addons team - then you will have access to this area.

you're inclined to think? but don't think too much because you arrive at wrong conclusions

XOOPSaddons is the addons module repository, it's work forums are based on XI. public read yes, join the team and you can post.. it simply stops all the noise and people butting in every 2 minutes. private forums? lmao this very xoops.org site has private forums.

every team has a private forum.. or did you not know that?

when the addons site is open, there will be public open forums for modules etc that are hosted on addons, where support for each module can be given better than comment system etc.. there's a lot you missed because you aren't in the teams over there..

and having private forums that are used just for team chatter or what have you, is not going against open source.. that's an old argument, drop it.

the council has a private forum too, go ask them to open that forum..

core devs have private discussions, go ask them to open all their private discussions up.. i think you'll find if they were forced to do that then people would find other alternatives of discussing privately

and we have lots of communication on XI, you just don't hear it because you don't want to hear it.

Underdog,

XOOPSaddons is a read only forum on Xoopsinfo.com and I have found a good part of the read only forum isn't available to the public either.

For Example, I was reading an exchange between Madfish and Davidl2 when they took the conversation private and removed the thread from view.

I like Madfish and in the past have supported his position, now I wonder why HE would support, if he does closed to the public threads and behind closed doors negotiation on XI.

I'm inclined to think XI doesn't have a clue as to how badly this reflects on xoops.org IF they were to eventually become an official part of the main site.

Lack of transparently and very bad communication is what most of this is all about.

When XI does its work in the open and encourages independent participation then maybe XI could be a role model as to how it should work. As it is, the model is the same only the names and site locations (are apt to) change.

It's business as usual.

Nobody knows who is doing what constructive ... or where!

The exception for me is Giba, I know what he is doing everywhere all the time. He sees to it!!!

Good work Giba, Thanks

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Excellent work! Keep it up and I'm confident more ppl will be helping out at XOOPSAddons to improve the XOOPS Project!

Well, I'm sure you can tell that I was not very happy, at the start of this thread.

However, one thing that has at least improved my spirits, is a number of people have come forward now to offer their support in maintaining a community Addons site.

I'm very overwhelmed indeed with the response!

So - regardless of if DJ has back-tracked on XOOPSAddons's status, and regardless of anything else, we have decided that are going to continue with the Addons site we have been working on for many months.

A slight change of plans or two will be made, but - realistically - I think we may even see a finished site soon...

For announcements, please see the XOOPSAddons forum. Unfortunately there is rather too much noise around here to post updates.

(Oh, and if anyone else is interested in adding their support - I look forward to hearing from you by PM at XOOPSInfo )

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Why is there no reply to this issue. Publically may I add? We all want a better Xoops. I posted in this thread almost 3 years ago regarding an improvement to the current module setup. This thread, nay this project was a start in the right direction. So what if the repository goes off site. Anything at this very moment is better that what we currently have and at this moment we have nothing. Whoever is up there you are losing out on some great assets in your workforce by ignoring and alienating them and their work.

This sand is starting to taste pretty good.