On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Hi Jerry, Hello! > On 11/23/2009 10:21 PM, Jerry Amundson wrote: >>>> 1 and 2 are easily done using Drupal. >>> At this time, were not really interested in even considering what >> I think "we" should be interested in alternatives. A "WebsiteVer2" >> should be a big deal. A great "look". Hell, even a "marketing tool". >> So far, is it more than a forum conversion? > > You seem confused, and I think also need to actually go through whats > been said and about what. You're right, of course, so I did, starting with this thread. > The bit that you seem to have read and completely missed out is that > were not interested in what software is going to be used - lets focus on > what needs to be done, built around some user stories and then see what > software meets the requirements. Yes, I agree to those points and didn't "miss" them. The scope described above makes sense. > The brain-dead idea that we seem to live with, often, in the open source > world is to shoehorn a user experience into the software-of-the-day. > Lets not try and go down that route. OK. The following bit gives the impression, however, that such a route has been partly "mapped out": On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Marcus Moeller <mail at marcus-moeller.de> wrote: > I guess the question is not about which software should be used. There > has been an evaluation process in the past: > http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums > > and migration scripts from new-bb to phpbb are already available and > ready for testing: > http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums/newbb_to_phpbb Blech! Now I see - I interpreted the existence of "migration scripts" to mean that phpBB was decided as the forum platform, however they are there for the eval process also. Sorry for the noise, jerry