My vote here, and only thinking in php based tools, will be for: forum: SMF (http://www.simplemachines.org) the one behind http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/ wiki: DokuWiki (http://www.dokuwiki.org) the one behind http://wiki.meebo.com you can also go for a test run of both tool at www.opensourcecms.com.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:23 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hrm, i like them - mailing lists, if run decently though, can be just > as effective. > > mediawiki for the win then - although i think it has a lot of funky > features/bugs :) (i don't have an alternative though - i kind of hate > wikis, heh) > > as far as forums go there are ton in php - vbulletin imho is the king > daddy (but requires a license), all the others have varying levels of > support/stability/etc. i come from a past where phpbb was pretty > simple and buggy, it's advanced a lot more since then. i wound up > writing my own basic forum instead of using what was out there at the > time... > > i think we could role model eating our own dog food the minute a > semi-stable drizzle daemon is around. would be good real-world testing > of any implementation gotchas (i.e. using php to drizzle, i assume for > the moment will still use mysql/mysqli functions?), any possible > schema differences, etc. > > of course, we don't want the website to be unstable or have any issues > due to the db itself! :) > > does launchpad fit the bill for bug tracking, a "wishlist" of features > (RFE?) and such? > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I should add... >> >> I HATE web forums. >> >> And by that, I mean... >> >> I HATE web forums. >> >> I think they are a really low-end replacement for newsgroups. Then >> again, I still wish that mailing lists were newsgroups... >> >> Chris Esquibel wrote: >>> *The skinny:* >>> >>> XWiki looks good but it's TomCat >>> MediaWiki (wikipedia.com) might be the "vanilla" de facto wiki package >>> but is it PHP? >>> >>> Since so many people know PHP, phpBB might be a good idea. CAPTCHA's >>> might not be safe from spammers though. >>> >>> *Details:* >>> >>> There is a website that does wiki comparisons of a very large list. >>> After a lot of queries, and downloading software, XWiki looked very >>> good, however it runs on TomCat. I will add that it comes in a >>> standalone version. I guess the "vanilla" flavor would be "MediaWiki" - >>> does anyone know if it's PHP? >>> >>> I caught a number of articles recently indicating that the "big boy" >>> spammers have cracked most of the existing CAPTCHA methods out there, >>> including phpBB3, so on this not I personally have no preference, but it >>> seems we do have a lot of PHP knowledge on the thread - maybe we should >>> Nike it. :-P >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> mike wrote: >>>> I can take this and run with it. >>>> >>>> Any preference on forum software or wiki software? >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jay Pipes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Brian Aker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>> A general "advocacy" mailing list makes some sense in my mind. >>>>>> >>>>> Good idea. Hopefully, everything can be run under the drizzle.org >>>>> domain, including a new wiki and possibly a forum. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On a similar note, I am getting far more conference requests then what I >>>>>> can (or want) to handle. David has mentioned taking on some in Europe >>>>>> and Mark took one this week in California. Somehow organizing these (and >>>>>> publishing them) would be a good idea. >>>>>> >>>>> Good to put this stuff on a wiki on drizzle.org. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> -Brian >>>>>> >>>>>> On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Pablo Castellazzi wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Should we start some kind of "drizzle-website-discuss" and start >>>>>>> planing this one? >>>>>>> may be a a blueprint in launchad? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Im on it if you need help. PHP/Ruby/Python name it. Im also work as a >>>>>>> sysadmin if you require some assistance setting up tools and tune >>>>>>> things a bit. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Chris Esquibel >>>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Mike, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'm a web developer (C#, PHP, JS, CSS, etc...) and would be happy to >>>>>>>>> help with setup, maintenance, custom code, etc. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Oh yeah, I don't have an issue with the PHP/JS/CSS/whatever. I just >>>>>>>> can't contribute to the core code :) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I suppose it depends what people want on the site, perhaps there will >>>>>>>> be work available for it though for both of us... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but >>>>>>> when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> _______________________________________________________ >>>>>> Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org >>>>>> Seattle, Washington >>>>>> http://krow.net/ <-- Me >>>>>> http://tangent.org/ <-- Software >>>>>> _______________________________________________________ >>>>>> You can't grep a dead tree. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
