On Thu, 09 Jun 2011, Tux99 wrote: > 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.
And it's easy to suggest things and complain that it was not done. > > 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. Other people suggested phpbb and did the setup. And I think there is more important things to do than installing every possible forum software. Like improving/installing build system, wiki, maintainers db, etc ... > 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. They can use gmane : http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel
