I'm not sure whether or not we should go with phpbb if we decide on a bulletin board because it's main developer left the project a couple of months ago. I'm not sure what the extended outlook of the project is..
I personally think we should keep it simple, and use two of the up & coming bulletin boards. No fuss, no huss.
punbb has been gaining a lot of traction lately among projects, as textdrive (the huge webhost) sponsors it and runs their own forum on it's software. It has all the basic features one would need, (easy admin, customizable, etc.)
The other option is vanilla, which is supposed to be a new take on a forum. It claims to have all the features one would want, and has removed the features people normally find bad in a forum. Some of the newer projects such as gregarius have started using it.
On 10/8/05, DrSlump drslump@drslump.biz wrote:
Geoffrey McCaleb wrote:
Personally I like phpbb the most, purely because it is so widely used and easy to use. Granted, it had some widely publicized vulnerabilities a while back, but any application that is so widely used will eventually be hacked.
I know the developers are not the biggest fans of bb's. Fair enough, but I can see value in having three elements all working together here:
- Mailing Lists - For immediate communication and development related
threads. 2. Wiki - Documentation & tracking of new features and 'how to's' 3. BB - For support, questions, and general discussion.
It may seem like too much now, but I think we have all seen applications following this sort of model, all very successfully.
I don't think rcube in its current form is ready for the 'general' public. The project status is marked as Alpha and as so I think it's better to keep all the discussions on a mailing list for now. After all, support questions won't have usually a standard answer since many important things can change from release to release. Once it reaches a beta status a forum could then be a good place for non-techy people to find answers.
ciao, ivan