[Foresight-devel] Re: Forums Update

[Stephanie Watson]

Despite my enthusiasm for SMF, I was sincerely hoping to go with Jive for
Foresight for many of the reasons we have already discussed.  However, since
we're going with SMF, I know I can work more on the development and
customization end, too.  Since a lot of the styling work (leveraging both
CSS and PHP) for the rPath Forum is still fresh on my mind, I'll be glad to
work on the theme for SMF, borrowing the styling from the rest of the new
website.

Also, I have my GeSHi code highlighting patch that should be a helpful
addition.  It is offered as an SMF-interface-managed mod, but in the
appliance model, it worked better as a patch for me because of file
ownerships.  I shadowed "smf" for the rPath Forum to add the patch, and I
would need to shadow it for Foresight to do the same thing so that I don't
break my redistribution agreement with Simple Machines LLC under their
license (I need to keep my original "smf" package representing the software
exactly as it is provided from their site).  There may be other features we
could add, too, if anyone has ideas; many developers have shared mods and
such at simplemachines.org.

Are we launching the forum simultaneous with the rest of the website, or can
I have this weekend to work on it?

-Stef

On 2/28/08, Paul Cutler <pcutler at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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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