That's a very relevant question, and of course that has crossed my mind too. My view has been that a forum really is a forum and files and help topics and so on, should only be stored there temporarily. In that view it is up to the project creators and ideas/howto contributors to keep track of what is useful and store that on github, a regularly updated Wiki, or wherever they store things in a more permanent form.bigpup wrote:The one big question.
What forum is going to be kept up and running, year after year.
Whoever is supplying the forum, probably is the only one paying for it.
How long are they willing to do that?
One of the weaknesses of Murga-forum, and therefore Puppy organisation more generally, is that the Forum has become the main resource such that if it vanished a lot would be lost. Puppy Wiki, on the otherhand, despite great and ongoing attempts to add uptodate material to it, is full of obsolete and irritatingly wrong information, and does not contain backup information of much that would be lost if the forum suddenly vanished. Having said that, it is very difficult to keep up with all the information that can be contributed quickly to a forum; better if Wiki access was more connected and available easily such that, for example, forum howto posts were immediately also added to Wiki. There has to be a reliable guaranteed Wiki, even then, of course, but that is easier to arrange than a forum since the latter requires special server with phpBB running on it (though I suppose you do need special Wiki software too).
Why is it that puppylinux.com does not have a server for setting up a forum rather than just the Wiki?
Summary is that Puppy basically relies on a forum for most of its uptodate documentation, and that is unfortunate.
wiak