While I'm not an active developer (just lurk on the list), I'd like to give my
opinion on this.
I think a forum is a great idea. The biggest advantage I see over most
mailing
lists is that a forum is searchable. I see too many F/OSS projects with
mailing lists that aren't searchable. Having a searchable forum/list really
cuts down on duplicate questions.
Having said that, I really like phpBB for forum software. It's actively
developed, has a lot of mods, and has an active community. It can also use
PostgreSQL, so you won't have to use MySQL.
Another feature I really like is a mod for phpBB called "Mail 2 Forum"
or m2f. It allows people to post and see responses to a forum using
e-mail. It's a
nice feature if you have some people who want a forum and some who want a
mailing list. I've used this mod in the past and it's pretty neat.
Anyway, just my $.02.
Dalen
Quoting "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have a question I'd like to toss out to the group for discussion/comment.
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and
converting over to online/web-based forums?
- People would only have to subscribe once and they could access all
the *Gear forums.
- I'm getting really sick of spam. I think we do a pretty good job
of protecting the list members themselves, but the list admins get
continually pummeled with spam rates measured in messages per hour
and sometimes messages per minute ...
If we would like to move towards using forums instead of mailing lists:
- Should we manage the forums ourselves on our own FG servers?
- Should we use some other forum hosting service?
- Should we piggy-back off of a place like avsim.com (which already
has one general FG forum.)
- I generally favor the idea of local admin control so we can set up
the various sub forums exactly how we like, but that means additional
setup and maintenance efforts on this end.
- If we run our own forum software, does anyone have any
recommendations. (Bearing in mind that right now, mysql is
hopelessly hosed on our FG servers and a complete purge and reinstall
has not fixed it.) Are there any mainstream, quality forum packages
that don't require mysql?
Curt.
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HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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