Forum, Category, Board ... Embedding, Linking ...

[Geert Claes]

I created a Smalltalk Category for the Smalltalk language back when I added the Pharo Smalltalk mailing-list as a Forum to Nabble.  Pharo Smalltalk has recentlty added a new Pharo Smalltalk User mailing-list which I also added as a Forum to Nabble.

1. Advice
I have now created a Pharo Board which groups both the Pharo Smalltalk and Pharo Smalltalk User mailing lists.  I am however unsure when one should use a Category, Board or Forum when structuring the mailing-lists as forums?

2. Help
My objective was actually to have all Smalltalk related mailing lists as forums on Nabble under the Smalltalk Category.  I seem to struggle to add third-party forums which are already on Nabble but in a different structure.  Can someone help me to add Squeak Dev), AIDA/Web and GNU Smalltalk which are in structures (or even old Nabble!).  Is there a way to "Embed" these other Nabble forums in the Smalltalk Category?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Geert Claes wrote

1. Advice
I have now created a Pharo Board which groups both the Pharo Smalltalk and Pharo Smalltalk User mailing lists.  I am however unsure when one should use a Category, Board or Forum when structuring the mailing-lists as forums?

Categories and Boards should be used when you have several sub-forums and the user must choose one to post. Categories have a simple list of sub-forums and Boards have two-levels. I think you can look at each one and compare:
http://n4.nabble.com/Jasig-f275507.html
http://n2.nabble.com/OpenStreetMap-f660402.html

Of course you can ignore the category and board types and just have normal forums.

Geert Claes wrote

2. Help
My objective was actually to have all Smalltalk related mailing lists as forums on Nabble under the Smalltalk Category.  I seem to struggle to add third-party forums which are already on Nabble but in a different structure.  Can someone help me to add Squeak Dev), AIDA/Web and GNU Smalltalk which are in structures (or even old Nabble!).  Is there a way to "Embed" these other Nabble forums in the Smalltalk Category?

We should move all these forums to just one place. I suggest we move everything to the n4 server, where Squeak Dev and AIDA/Web are located. Links to the moved forums will still work for some months, until people update their links. Can I move them?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Hi Geert, all lists are on n4 now, see:
http://n4.nabble.com/Smalltalk-f1294792.html