Ned Slider wrote:
My feeling is that the most productive way to get forward with the website/forum update is to split the forum from the website. In my experience the forum present in CMS tools aren't made for the amount of traffic we are having. So something dedicated sound like a better option. So I have been looking around for open source forum software that link to ldap without to much effort. I've looked at 3 projects (Phorum, phpBB and SMF). They all 3 are good looking, well featured and maintained. Though, only phpBB has a decent built-in LDAP integration (FreeIPA is built on top of LDAP).
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So what do people think, did I miss stuff, other suggestions, ...
A thread has started at the forums for forum users to let folks know what they would like to see in terms of features/usability:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14921&forum=4...
Obviously this is approaching the issue from an end user PoV, but it may be helpful in understanding what the community wants when choosing what software to use. Personally I would think any of the major dedicated forum software would be an improvement in terms of features/usability compared to the current system and provide many of the features that users are looking for as standard.
Why not hook up whatever these guys are using as an email<->forum gateway so you don't have to log in all the time to reply: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-list.... There was really no impact at all on the backuppc list when it was added other than perhaps a few more beginner-type questions. I don't know specifically what the gateway software is, but it is independent from the mail list and appears as a single subscriber.