I think it's a great idea to use sourceforge -- better visibility, a
full complement of tools, it's the first place most of us turn for open
source stuff. And it's counter-productive to have our components
behind a password on developer.witango.com. Even if we had the holy
grail there, google wouldn't find it.
But before we go too far, I think it would be worthwhile for the
community to choose one (hopefully only one) of the myriad open source
licenses. Then we need to provide agree standard header to go in our
files that identifies the pertinent license, author(s) etc.
I agree that a community-based project is appropriate. Of course each
successful project needs a leader, so thanks for jumping out in front
Jason. One way to approach development would be to use the
witango-talk list to solicit contributions in specific areas (eg.
authentication, markup, groups, moderation, skins, RSS, installation
scripts, etc.) Hopefully we could use this to demonstrate the benefits
of TCFs.
Also, someone needs to choose the database(s) that would be supported,
which I think should be open source as well.
Bill
On Saturday, May 21, 2005, at 04:22 AM, Jason Pamental wrote:
Kevin -
Fantastic start (I would be the John Doe update to the test account.)
This is just the sort of thing that I think we've all been looking
fore. There are some things I'd love to see - and help add - to make
it even better. Many of the things I was noticing are simple little
things about interface stuff; not substantial work. If you're game to
add it I'm sure that it would quickly evolve. The search functionality
would be one area to work on, and then some sort of 'embeddable code'
for embedding links and such in the posts would be another area. In
many of the boards I've seen it's done with simpler stuff than just
pasting in HTML (and therefore safer for the system) and could look
something like [url]http://somelinkhere.com[/url] being replaced by
the html to make the link active. This would be a good start, and of
course adding smily faces. (Cheesy, but everyone's got that.... )
I've submitted a request to add Witango to the list of Programming
languages, so that when a project goes live you can add that as a
reference for searchability within the system. I can guarantee you
that if you put that up I will help with the things I've mentioned, as
I'm sure others will as well.
Thanks for sharing that.
Jason
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On May 21, 2005, at 12:10 AM, Kevin Quinn wrote:
try this: http://24.157.121.217/tboard/
login: test
passwd: test
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Let me know if ths fits the bill.
Jason Pamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And here's my gauntlet-throw-down: a good threaded message board.
We've
all needed one at one time or another, and many different ones exist.
But if we had a solid community effort to pull one together modeled
after some of the more popular ones (vBulletin, for one) it would be
a
big plus, along with the Polling and Secure Content Management
projects
that Witango has put out there (it would be great if those could go
up
there as well perhaps, along with the blog module?)
Jason
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