On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:50, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ireneusz Gierlach at 27/09/10 19:09 did gyre and gimble: >> I know you guys are talking about forum software only (I'm jumping in >> the middle of the conversation so i'm not sure), but there is a >> developer platform called redmine. http://www.redmine.org/ It's in Ruby >> on Rails and has like Forum, Wiki, Roadmaps, issue tracking and so on. >> As far as I know its GPL. > > I think a lot of the constructs and principles in redmine (and other > trac-like systems) are not really geared towards a full distro type > system. Certainly I doubt the repository viewers etc. will be sufficient > and the forum component is also likely rather simplistic compared to > fully-fledge forums. I doubt very much we'd want to use anything other > than bugzilla for issue tracking (mainly due to the history, but also > due to the fact that the workflow in redmine is deliberately rather > simple and minimal and we probably want something more rigid). > > With this in mind, if you discount issue tracking, forum and repository > viewer, then there are not many reasons left to make Redmine a good option. > > Don't get me wrong, I use trac (which is very similar to redmine) daily > and really like it, but I'm just not convinced it would be appropriate > for this kind of thing. >
well, look at sites like illumos.org. They use Redmine, but they've managed to make it in such a way that it can function as a regular website too. -- later, Robert Xu _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
