[Foresight-devel] Re: Forums Update

Paul Cutler pcutler at foresightlinux.org
Thu Feb 28 11:03:18 EST 2008


After talking to gxti briefly last night, we'll go with SMF.  It will
be much easier to deploy the SMF appliance instead of a Tomcat based
appliance.

Who's up for helping creating a SMF theme?!
(http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=34.0;sort=subject)

Paul

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Paul Scott-Wilson
<pscott at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:45:39AM -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
>  | Please let me know your feedback. I'll be fine with either,
>  | but I think Jive gets a slight edge. I'd like to try and have
>  | a recommendation by end of day tomorrow, and then discuss
>  | in the Focus meeting Friday. If you would rather keep your
>  | feedback private rather than the list, just shoot me an email
>  | directly.
>  From the brief time I spent playing with both, Jive gave me less grief
>  and a better gut feeling. In particular I like the admin interface, the
>  feeds, polls, questions and tagging. On the down side it lacks some
>  "normal" forum features like sticky threads, splitting threads and
>  sorting is always by last modified. There are also little things that
>  bug me. To view multiple tags at once you need to change the URL by hand
>  and searches don't contain matching tags at all.
>
>  While playing with Jive I macgyvered a way to run it under a different
>  app-server and a theme so getting it running and themed shouldn't be a
>  problem.
>
>  Despite my gut preferring Jive I'd be fine with using either too.
>  --
>  Paul Scott-Wilson (pscott)
>  http://sentenc.es
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