This is kind of like before NHibernate moved to hibernate.org. We had a separate forum which was better than the current one since we could create sub sections and organize it like we wanted.   Aside that, we have to think of what value there is in moving out? - Blogging? Is anybody interesting in creating/moving his blog to nhibernate.org/blogs/ ?

- Documentation (How to, Faq...): Well, I would highly prefer any documentation be inside the official one (in docbook format) since that one can be compiled and released for online access/printing/whatever. Now, I know that it is quite restrictive (since it is docbook), and that's why we have this page: http://www.hibernate.org/365.html Maybe we could ressucitate the wiki that we had a while ago...

By the way, if we decide to create a new forum, it is highly important to export the current one (even if it isn't reorganized) because it contains a lot of information that should stay available (without having to juggle between two websites).

So, overall, I fear that it might be not be worth the effort. But I could be wrong if you have any specific ideas.   Oh, and about JBoss, let's not be unfair: They did pay Sergey to work full time on NHibernate for about a year and it is in that time frame that NHibernate 1.0 was released (which required a lot of clean up, organization and proper documentation).

I think that they stopped supporting NHibernate simply because it wasn't profitable enough and too much "out of line" (since they focus on Java).

And does RedHat really "owns" anything? We should be able to take back nhibernate.org if we want to..