On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > What would be an additional important figure is, how long has it been > for each vulnerability to be fixed; how many users each has had, etc. > > Plus, what type of vulnerability. Plus, for what branch of the > software (I guess, for instance, phpBB 2.x and 3.x are a bit > different).
You are right but all that requires a lot more time to investigate which I currently don't have. But in any case it's hard to argue with 7 (fudforum) vs. 723 (phpBB). > What we do need is a forum that matches our needs; actually pretty > basic, but maybe for having good admin features, excellent > hackability, extensability, being well documented, having a nice > community of developers around it. Agreed and I'd say that all of the FOSS packages I listed generally fulfill these criteria (each with their own strong points). > So, requirement #1: open source license (as in http://opensource.org/ ). Well out of the ones I listed that is: phpBB - GPL myBB - GPL FUDforum - GPL this page is also quite useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP) I was actually doing this comparison not primarily for the future Mageia forum, but because I'm looking for a good forum software for a personal project. I had mostly decided to take myBB since it has a very good reputation and is considered relatively secure (and this check I did confirms that), but since I discovered FUDforum a few days ago and tested it on the weekend I have now decided that FUDforum is the ideal choice for me (and IMHO also for the Mageia forum). > Parts of it were heavily hacked back in the days. Still, yes, it's > sort of a miracle somehow. :-) I guess these days sadly Mandriva is too unimportant to be a target of hackers. _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
