Dear Russ. >> As an end user, I would like to know if there is any forward progress on >> doing something about the CentOS forums? > > whatever forward means -- > > You don't like it for various reasons; a post in the first > Forum thread listed from a centos devel was made, and no trial > implementation indicating satisfaction with the criteria was > made that I can see > > 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? > >> This apparently has came up time and again, with various examples being >> given of the deficiencies of the existing setup (depending on your point >> of view). > > I saw chatter and grumbling between people who like 'pull > content' such as forums > >> As near as I can tell the general consensus seems to be >> 'yes, something needs to be done' > > And the mice voted to bell the cat. If all noses are of equal > value and no cost is placed on voting and no cost is imputed > to the effort needed to make changes, then sure those choosing > to speak as to a proposed change (without doing anything to > further it) I suppose there is 'general consensus' in favor of > said change. 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. Besides just talking, let's take a look at the facts: Sample implementation has already been done. LDAP bind works fine, User creation is not possible from the application, so there needs to be coded something for. We have written a migration script to port newbb content to phpbb which is documented well and can be found here: http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2/forums/newbb_to_phpbb phpBB theming process has been started, but stalled a bit as we are moving forward to a common visual style: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Style/Web/Default If you got any further questions concerning what has already been done, feel free to ask. Best Regards Marcus