If a built-in forum existed(yay), would users be allowed to upload images to support their posts/queries/tickets? And if so, could those attachments be treated less strictly regarding shunning? Deleting occasional spammer/bot entries will be required.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Jun 27, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Otsuka <djg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > adding a mailing list feature isn’t too far fetched. > > > > Has this idea been brought up before? > > drh has publicly stated that he would like to write his own email > server.[1] > > However, given Fossil’s nature, I think a web forum might be better. > > While I’m generally in favor of mailing lists over web forums, I do think > that having a web forum system built into Fossil could offer some unique > advantages over Fossil + a 3rd party web forum which could overcome the > disadvantages of web forums: > > 1. No exposure of email addresses, hence no email spam. :) > > 2. Forum spam can’t be forged, violators can be banned, and their unwanted > posts removed. (Subject to the same limitations on shunning as we have > now, of course, so no one could make a “censorship!” cry stick.) > > 3. Posts would be Fossil versioned artifacts, with all the benefits that > derive therefrom. For just one example, everyone cloning the > fossil-scm.org repo would also get a copy of the historical Fossil forum > discussions. Imagine being able to search the forums for help while > offline. > > 4. Similarly, you could sync your Fossil repos, get on a plane, and answer > forum posts in the air, then autosync them to the central repo when you get > back online. > > 5. Many of the pieces needed to implement this already exist: tickets are > nearly forum-like already, we have two perfectly suitable markup language > processors, we have an RSS generator, we have a perfectly suitable DBMS, an > FTS engine, etc. > > 6. Speaking of FTS, searching the fossil-scm.org forum archive would turn > up fewer wristwatch and handbag results. :) > > 7. If Fossil forum posts worked more like wiki articles than tickets, you > could edit your posts after posting them, with the history of the post > available to prevent rewriting history. > > 8. Every now and then, someone will pop up on this list asking for some > kind of email notification. These people often refuse to be placated by > the current alternative, RSS. An automatically-generated sub-forum for > each of these use cases might do the trick instead. (Commit messages with > inline diffs, ticket change notifications, etc.) > > 9. The world really needs someone to take a second bite at the apple that > Discourse tried for. That *can’t* be the best the open source community > can come up with. > > About the only one of these that you get with a built-in email server + > mailing list manager in Fossil is that it would be a platform to address > #8. My sense is that drh’s wish to implement his own MTA would result in a > separate piece of software, however, so you wouldn’t even get that benefit, > except possibly through some kind of email gateway. > > > [1]: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/320 > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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