On 09/27/2010 02:58 PM, Robert Xu wrote:
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.
Well its written in Ruby so maybe (if) we get a ruby dev, he can adapt
it to our needs specifically. On the other hand you can do that with
every project (in theory). But if I may ask, why does the forum need to
be very complex? I'm looking at multiple forums and they don't seem to
have much out of the ordinary...
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