Re: [Springframework-developer] Re: Getting forum messages by email?

[Alexandru P. <the...@gm...>]

#: Colin Sampaleanu changed the world a bit at a time by saying on  8/23/2005 8:14 PM :#
> Well I've actually given up on the mythical phpBB 3.0 ever being 
> finished and ready, and the current 2.x is somewhat of a disaster to 
> maintain in terms of adding in custom plugins. You have to tweak every 
> template by hand.
> 
> The plan is to at a minimum move to vBulletin (3.0.8 is the current 
> version, with 3.5 in release candidate), as it has a conversion script 
> for phpBB and we wouldn't lose old posts, and has some better email 
> facilities. But along the way I'm going to also give a try to converting 
> to Jive Forums. We've been offered a free copy of Jive Forums 
> Enterprise, which is very capable (including full news and email 
> integration), but the problem is conversion of the old phpBB posts, 
> which we simply don't want to lose. There is supposedly a vBulletin to 
> Jive converter, so I will give that a go. If it works we'll go with 
> Jive, if it doesn't, we'll stick with vBulletin.
> 


One question: Jive Forums are f.e. used by opensymphony sites? (if so, then I can tell for sure that 
at least forum to mail and mail to forum posts are working ;-) ).

:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

> The main problem in all of this is time. I can't spare the time to do 
> this work until some time in Sept., and possibly worst case, even Oct.
> 
> Colin
> 
> Thomas Van de Velde wrote:
> 
>> Colin,
>>
>> It seems that I collected two votes on this one. ;-)  Are you 
>> considering to expand the forum's services?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
>> On 8/23/05, *Alexandru Popescu* <the...@gm... 
>> <mailto:the...@gm...>> wrote:
>>
>>     #: Roland Huss changed the world a bit at a time by saying
>>     on  8/23/2005 11:15 AM :#
>>     > Thomas Van de Velde wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=144548 for RSS feeds.
>>     >
>>     > Cool. I really would like to have an RSS feed for the
>>     Spring-Forums.
>>     > Is there any chance to get this mod installed on
>>     forum.springframework.org <http://forum.springframework.org> ?
>>     >
>>     > ciao....
>>
>>     There have been some more discussions about this, but with no
>>     final conclusion. I am wondering why
>>     one of those cannot be supported? (I would prefere mails, but rss
>>     would be good too).
>>
>>     I really hope these will be supported very very soon ;-).
>>
>>     :alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|
>>
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