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[LiuCougar]

I missed the meeting.
Could you enlighten me why nabble is not good enough? (it has email
notification and it is synced with our mailing list)

On 12/7/06, Amit Green <amit at mixie.org> wrote:
>
>  Team,
>
>
> Forums is a great idea :)
> A major concern is the ability to take out what is in the forum into a text
> file and port it to another forum software (most open source forum software
> uses mysql, which can easily be dumped; and therefore meets this
> requirement)
>
> I have a concern with "hackability" with open-source software that has a
> different license than Dojo, as follows:
>
>  If development is done on the software to improve it (i.e.: to integrate
> dojo into it, to improve it, and "make the UI rock even more");
> And that development then ends up improving dojo (i.e.: we want to port back
> some of the changes into dojo);
> Then, at least theoretically, the changes ported back might have tiny pieces
> of code subject to the license of the other open source software.
> The above implies (to a paranoid person such as myself) that if any
> "hackability" is done on any, nothing should be backported.
>
> As for forums I am comfortable with, I have only used two (both of them for
> many months):
>
> phpBB, which I hate.
> SMF (Simple Machines Forums), which I neither love or hate, but is
> "usuable".  And it does function.
>  Although, SMF would not be "hackable" given my concerns above.
> SMF does not have fully automatic notification, only partial on a per forum,
> and then on a per posting.  We could probably write a php/mysql script that
> on new messages & responses, to automatically adds people that are
> subscribed to that forum to subscribe to that message.  However, we are
> talking ~20 hours of work to write it & qa it & test it.  And then that
> software would be stuck in SMF license:
> http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php
>  Amit
>
>
>  Alex Russell wrote:
>  Hey all,
>
> As per today's IRC meeting, we're going to go ahead with forums in
> addition to the mailing lists and IRC channels. To make these
> effective, we need to pick forum software that we will be happy using.
> On IRC, it was noted that we need at least the following:
>
>  * email notification
>  * a good security record
>  * "hackability" so we can skin it and use Dojo to make the UI rock even
> more
>
> What other features does our forum-ware need to have?
>
> Also, what packages are people comforatble with? (bbPress was mentioned,
> but it's only one of many).
>
> We'll need forum moderators and admins from the community as well. We'll
> post to dojo-interest asking for help on that front once we have the
> forums up.
>
> Regards
>
>
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