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=18 > 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 > <snip> 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.