On 5/25/10 2:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > I would add [with the benefit of time and knowing what is > happening in the broader Open Source world] to z00dax' > comment, that it should support federated authentication > [ldap,OpenID, whatever]; show a low attack surface history at > the CVE; be in active maintenance or better, development; be > in a language permitting addon extensibility without having to > 'marry' the darn thing; and permit 'static' top pages to > address 'slashdotting'. Does it integrate well with puppet, > mailman, and stock CentOS tools; is it Free and Open Source > software using CentOS stock supporting packages? Valid points. Any suggested products that meet said criterion? > But all I see from the talkers, is talk; nothing > prevents any of the talkers from doing in a sandbox somewhere, > so far as I know. From what I gathered, there *is* some work going on in a sandbox somewhere, it's just never making it to the production server for what ever reason - whether its not working, or just not finished. > And meeting the artistic sensibilities of some people is in > the core goal set of CentOS, such that the project leaders > _want_ to care just, because ...? 'Artistic sensibilities'... thats a good one. Have you tried looking at the site recently? Specifically the nearly illegible menus in the forum proper? Its not so much a matter of 'looking pretty' as 'being less painful to use'. > I see: > >> X-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X >> 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 >> Thunderbird/3.0.4 > > and frankly this is a GUI users complaint, I guess, > considering the source Frankly I don't see what OS I run on my day-to-day laptop has jack-all to do with anything related to whether or not the forum software is borderline broken. > Perhaps a running and ovbiously better replacement would > convince the core team that it cares to undertake the pain of > a conversion, and ongoing maintenance Ya know, I don't really care if there is a forum or not - but since there is, I think it should work as expected. Traditionally new users asking the same questions over and over again are advised to 'use the Search function' - which in the case of the CentOS forums returns exactly one page of results - thats it - over and over again. Doesn't matter what the search parameters are, it doesn't work properly, period. Mailing lists are fine with me, and judging from some of the posts in the various threads (and yours), maybe CentOS would be better off just not having a forum at all.