Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hi,
Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ).
We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend.
So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list )
- phpBB
- SMF
- Fudforum
- phorum
- fluxbb
Purely from a users (and moderators) PoV, SMF would get my vote IF it meets the requirements outlined below. I believe it meets the key usability features that our users are looking for from the forums software as outlined in this feedback thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14921&forum=1...
Requirements:
- Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs )
- Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in
writing the ldap-auth portion )
- Must address the specific requirements raised by the present
www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? )
- Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good )
- Secure
- Skin'able
Nice to have:
- Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment
- responsive community :D
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If there's anything I can do to help move this process forward, then I'm a willing volunteer - I'm just not sure where I could help out.