I wanted to provide another update on the merged forums progress. As you might have noticed, we didn’t quite manage to launch the merged forums as we originally hoped to do in mid-May. Yes, I know, it’s the first time in the history of open source that a release date has slipped…

In case you’re wondering, the release date slipped because of problems with database imports from the various forums — as you might expect, this is a bit on the complex side, and the forum wizards have been working out the best way to import users and posts from the other forums.

We should be over that hurdle now and back on track. The current target date is now June 9. It’s particularly important to us to have working forums by the time openSUSE 11.0 is ready, so we’re not too far away now.

Once again, I want to thank the leaders of the individual forums (Keith Kastorff, Kim Groneman, and Wolfgang Koller) for all of the hard work they’ve put into this process, and I also want to thank Rupert Horstkötter for helping shepherd the process.

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