[Mageia-dev] News about the forum

Frederic Janssens fjanss at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 12:53:01 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 09:08, Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We were prepared from start to have things to code for the forums.
>
> That's also why a true opensource engine was absolutely needed.
>
> That mean that we will not completely avoid to code some mods.
>
> For security and troll control/containment/education we already knew
>
> For mailing-lists bidge the need is something that we did not anticipate
> but this feature is not likely to change all that's been done :
> -- this feature is cool and that would be stupid to reject it ihmo
> -- but it's not a blocking one
> -- we lived long without it (and we can live a little bit longer till
> it's added)
>

yes

>
> We are starting with a basic forum (with a slightly nicer skin than the
> default
> and a few mods and lang packs )
>
> We have set up a low level infrastructure with git


good , can you advertise it, so I can exercise whith git ?
I am all for git but have not used it much.

and other tools to be
> able to hack
> the missing features without without risking to break things or impair
> user experience.
>
> Once tested and approved feature will naturally end in the forum
> (hopefully without issue at all).
>
> The difference is only : we have one more feature to hack than that we
> could anticipate :)
>
> > Latest m2f 2.0 alpha release works but it is a feature-lacking
> > version. It is being used by some ppl in production sites though, but
> > this is not recommended.
> > AFAIK there are NO mods out there that even get close to m2f 1.2
> > functionality. Not even google/yahoo groups get close
> >
> > but the site also says :
> >
> > The m2f team are seeking new developers to join the project. We need
> > experienced PHP developers who would like to help with the v2.0 redesign,
> >
> > So : would there be volunteers to help m2f ?
> That could also be a from-scratch developement (and i don't dismiss the
> option to take parts of fudforum gateway)
>
> Obviously if someone (generous, noble, brilliant and skilled with php
> ^^) volunteers to help on that part he/she will be most welcome :)
>

Unfortunately I am not a  php programmer, but I will do what I can to help

>
> All the best,
> Maât
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Frederic
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