Forums revival
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Forums revival project
Reason
18 july 2010, vmiklos said:
Sigh. Yes, you are right. Unfortunately I think these are bugs in the upgrade scripts upstream provided, so we can't do too much here. Speaking of long-term plans with the forums, probably the source of problems is that it's maintained by me, who is not a big fan of forums. In case somebody want to step up as forums maintainer, I'm happy to help him. I'm even open to migrate to an other forums engine if the new maintainer would want that, though having the mailman gateway we currently have would be a nice feature to keep. (And probably most engines does not really support it.)
Objectives
- Having a real forums maintainer
- Keep the members accounts and all threads/posts
- Keep the hook forum <-> mailing list
Ideas
- Changing forums type
the only conversion from fudforums is possible with SMF, then from SMF we can convert to another type of forums
- About the hook
The hook oblige to keep a ugly categorization (by languages)
A good categorization would be:
- Support
- Installation
- Hardware & Laptops
- Desktop Environments
- Applications
- Creating & Building Packages
- Community
- Cafe (Off-topic Discussions)
- Artwork Contributions
- Tips & Tricks
- International Users
- German
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Polish
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Alternative to the hook