I would love to try phpbb, I used it with my old site (before I moved to mozdev) and I liked it very much. I think it would work better than Drupal for sites that want just a forum without the wiki and blog, and it has better forum tools than what Drupal currently provides. Also, I think more people have experience with administering it and it isn't too hard to learn. (Although I'm not saying we should kick out Drupal yet - it is pretty cool to have a hosting site that offers an entire content management system.)
Also: I am a supporter of SVN over CVS and I would love to help if we begin testing it on mozdev. Thanks, Jake On 4/7/2010 1:12 PM, anirvana mishra wrote: > I have experience in forum administration.Probably we can try phpbb, > that's easier to understand and modify. > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Axel <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Philip, > > > On 07/04/10 15:50, Philip Chee wrote: >> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:01:43 +0200, Brian King wrote: >> >> One thing I noticed is that the AMO website development irc channel is >> very active. Perhaps we can use that model to restart the mozdev website >> maintenance and uplift process. > I kind of find IRC awkward for exchanging information like this - > if we could direct some of the people interested in this to this > list the results might be more permanent. On top we could draw up > any changes / additions on the mozdev wiki pages > > ( such as http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/New-People) > > > >> No doubt many of the AMO developers are >> paid contractors but having an active volunteer team with one or two >> central gate-keepers rather than a bunch of formal "positions" where >> each person is responsible for one particular area might encourage more >> people to chip in if it appears to them that the barriers to entry are >> relatively low. >> > agreed, although it will be necessary to have some responsible > Admin Personell with the necessary permissions to change stuff. > >> It might be good to move the actual mozdev site source code to something >> more modern like SVN which would encourage people to download the code >> and work on it. How complete is the wossname hovercraft package and how >> easy is it for some vounteeer with some sysadmin experience to install >> mozdev locally for testing purposes? >> > SVN sounds like a good system, google code uses it as well. And > its easy enough so even I understand it. but lets not have pie in > the sky maybe it should just be owned by the new people first > because I fear are no resources left to pull it over. It wouldn't > be good make a fresh start with a broken system. > > :) > > >> Drupal: The problem is that this is fairly intimidating and the barriers >> to entry are very high. Most of us however have experience running (or >> at least moderating) a webforum running PHPbbs or Invision Powerboard. >> > Like I said before, is the main part of the site independent from > drupal? (My impression was the forums were the main reasons for > drupal) If this was a major stumbling block, I would suggest > dropping the forums (or archiving them) with a view to replacing > them with something easier - does anybody on this list have > experience with forum administration or could come up with a > simpler alternative? > > The most important site parts, from a technical standpoint in > order of precedence would be: > 1 - Extension homepages (for linking from extension - about) > 2 - Projects & Project Member Administration > 3 - Bug Tracking > 4 - Source Hosting (I would say this could be outsourced, if > necessary) > ... > ... (please insert missing items here ... ) > ... > > 5 - Forums (drupal?) > 6 - Blogs (drupal?) > 7 - Shop > > > I think we need to set up some Wiki Pages on Mozdev in order to > get a full list of parts. I just leave this list here for you > currently active Mozdev admins and Project owners to complete / > discuss, this is just shooting from the hip, so apologies if I > left out important things or got the order wrong.. > > > Axel > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > > > > -- > Cheers > Anirvana Mishra
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