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Well, another long thread …
We have to understand that certain things should not be discussed in public. Does anybody think that all 46000 members want or like to be involved in everything? Most of us – the simple users – only want to find answers to our XOOPS questions or solutions to our XOOPS problems.
If the outcome of a (private) discussion is not published, then, it is not the existence of the private forum that creates the lack of information; it is rather the lack of organization that creates the problem.
This is where xoops.org is having problem lately. A lot of things are discussed (in private forums, MSN, by phone, you name it) but there is not any announcement in news or in public forums.
For example, lately there were complaints about the lack of version 2.3 testers. I visit xoops.org very often but I never saw an announcement that there is such request.
From the other side, I do not have the time to look around the web and read everything.
So, to my opinion, it is the management and the organization that suffers not the private discussions (they can happen anyway).
Even this discussion will be endless or without any result (since there is not someone having the responsibility to decide as happens to organized communities), somebody has to take the decision: To have or not to have private discussions? The question now is who?
Concluding, I would recommend that there should be a team formed by a remarkable number of experienced members, having their private forums, having (at last) the right to vote for subjects that are critical, …, AND bear the responsibility of the success or the death of XOOPS…
Thanks for the patience.
I’d rather stop posting again in this thread. It will never end so.