Tim Verhoeven 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). > <snip> > > 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=45 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.