[CentOS-devel] forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
Dag Wieers
dag at centos.org
Fri Sep 26 10:31:33 UTC 2008
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Ned Slider wrote:
>> > Marcus Moeller wrote:
>> > > I agree. This license makes it nealy impossible to use/distribute it.
>> > >
>> > I don't really see any restrictions on it's use, only it's distribution.
>> > I just don't particularly like the language per se.
>>
>> It would mean that we'd use a forum software but wouldn't really be able
>> to
>> package it - especially if we had to change some code to make it work
>> smoothly on a (for example) SELinux enabled CentOS install (or just put
>> files somewhere else than SMF expects them to be and we would have to
>> change code for that).
>>
>> For me this is a real showstopper.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
> +1 ... actually punbb/fluxbb works on a CentOS 5.x DomU with Selinux enabled
> and it's working ok (nothing to change, except allowing httpd to send smtp
> mail for the mail notification part of the forum)
Did anyone look at the Forum capabilities of Drupal ? Or at some of the
Drupal modules that add Forum capabilities.
I don't know what is important for forums, but it is used quite
succesfully for lots of websites and the integration with a Drupal portal
would mean that where necessary posts could be hightlighted on the
frontpage (or some subsequent portal-page).
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