On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > > integrated in the official forum rather than separate: > > http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/ > > Once more, as misc suggested again yesterday, and as it has been > replied from the beginning, you are free and welcome to join the > sysadmin team and/or web team and/or to work to provide a patch for > this feature, against our infrastructure. > > Mageia is a community thing, and it's not enough to say "it should be > that way" to have it done. You want it, you do it, you submit it to > review. Working prototypes have more value than ideas.
That's easy to say for you, I have zero experience with phpbb or php programming in general, so I'm certainly not able to provide any patches to your forum. I suggested to use the fudforum software (which I used for the existing forum<>ML gateway way before you even decided on forum software) which has the ML<>forum gateway built-in so no patches would have been needed, but the Mageia admins decided to go for phpbb instead. That said, I will have to probably shut down my gateway since as I said I'm not a php or database expert and I just ran into a problem with the forum-db that I don't have the skills to solve. If anybody wants to help me then please see the problem description here: http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=120018&start=0 PM me with any suggestions as this would be off topic here. Personally I'm not too fussed if I have to shut down the forum gateway, but it would be sad for the considerable number of users that were reading the Mageia MLs via the ML gateway forum.
