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From: Colin S. <col...@ex...> - 2005-10-23 14:39:14
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I'm pleased to announce that we've changed forum software from phpBB to vBulletin. While phpBB has served us decently well over the last year, we've also had a number of issues with it. vBulletin has a better user feature set, and behind the scenes, a much better management experience. Importantly, it also has a very clean import path from phpBB, preserving all existing users and posts, the latter being especially critical as the thousands of existing posts are an invaluable resource. All existing posts should have come across without issues. The one exception is that any post that included (such as in a code sample) the standard XML escape sequence of < which stands for '<' will in the imported version just have a '<'. There should be no cases or next to none cases of this though. Note that any threads you were subscribed to previously (either because you explicitly subscribed to them, or because you checked the appropriate check-box when creating a thread) will need to be subscribed to again. All user accounts should have imported successfully. Note that any user signatures containing quotes in them will need light editing, as " came across as \". Be aware that as opposed to the old phpBB vehaviour, when displaying threads in a forum vBulletin defaults to only the last month's worth. Another value (e.g. all posts) may be easily specified via the dropdown at the bottom of the thread listing. Expect the look and feel (theme) of the site to change over the next few weeks. Due to issues with phpBB it was considered important to make this switch now, before secondary aspects such as a final look and feel were fully done. Working against the limitation that existing posts must not be lost, it will be our goal on an ongoing basis to continue to enhance the user experience on the forums. This means we will in the future further enhance the feature set with plugins to vBulletin, new versions of vBulletin, or even a move to other software where that makes sense and a clean conversion is possible. Regards, Colin __________________ Colin Sampaleanu Interface21 - Spring Training, Consulting, and Support, "From the Source" http://www.springframework.com |
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From: Colin S. <col...@ex...> - 2005-10-23 14:56:55
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An additional note: You do need to edit your profile to set your proper timezone, as this will not have transferred across successfully. This may be done in the "Edit Options" page of the User Control Panel. You may also need to edit any custom signature you have defined for yourself, if it has a quote in it, as " came across as \"editing, as " came across as \". Colin Sampaleanu wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that we've changed forum software from phpBB > to vBulletin. > > While phpBB has served us decently well over the last year, we've also > had a number of issues with it. vBulletin has a better user feature > set, and behind the scenes, a much better management experience. > Importantly, it also has a very clean import path from phpBB, > preserving all existing users and posts, the latter being especially > critical as the thousands of existing posts are an invaluable resource. > > All existing posts should have come across without issues. The one > exception is that any post that included (such as in a code sample) > the standard XML escape sequence of < which stands for '<' will in > the imported version just have a '<'. There should be no cases or next > to none cases of this though. > > Note that any threads you were subscribed to previously (either > because you explicitly subscribed to them, or because you checked the > appropriate check-box when creating a thread) will need to be > subscribed to again. > > All user accounts should have imported successfully. Note that any > user signatures containing quotes in them will need light editing, as > " came across as \". > > Be aware that as opposed to the old phpBB vehaviour, when displaying > threads in a forum vBulletin defaults to only the last month's worth. > Another value (e.g. all posts) may be easily specified via the > dropdown at the bottom of the thread listing. > > Expect the look and feel (theme) of the site to change over the next > few weeks. Due to issues with phpBB it was considered important to > make this switch now, before secondary aspects such as a final look > and feel were fully done. > > Working against the limitation that existing posts must not be lost, > it will be our goal on an ongoing basis to continue to enhance the > user experience on the forums. This means we will in the future > further enhance the feature set with plugins to vBulletin, new > versions of vBulletin, or even a move to other software where that > makes sense and a clean conversion is possible. > > Regards, > Colin > __________________ > Colin Sampaleanu > Interface21 - Spring Training, Consulting, and Support, "From the Source" > http://www.springframework.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. > Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course > Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 > Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information > _______________________________________________ > Springframework-developer mailing list > Spr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/springframework-developer > |
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From: Colin S. <col...@ex...> - 2005-10-23 15:10:26
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One other setting you will probably want to tweak in your user options is the choice of the editor to use when posting. By default this will be "Basic Editor", but you may want to change it to "Standard Editor", which adds some formatting controls, or "Enhanced Interface", which allows a full WYSIWYG interface using DHTML. Colin Sampaleanu wrote: > An additional note: > > You do need to edit your profile to set your proper timezone, as this > will not have transferred across successfully. This may be done in the > "Edit Options" page of the User Control Panel. You may also need to > edit any custom signature you have defined for yourself, if it has a > quote in it, as " came across as \"editing, as " came across as \". > > > Colin Sampaleanu wrote: > >> I'm pleased to announce that we've changed forum software from phpBB >> to vBulletin. >> >> While phpBB has served us decently well over the last year, we've >> also had a number of issues with it. vBulletin has a better user >> feature set, and behind the scenes, a much better management >> experience. Importantly, it also has a very clean import path from >> phpBB, preserving all existing users and posts, the latter being >> especially critical as the thousands of existing posts are an >> invaluable resource. >> >> All existing posts should have come across without issues. The one >> exception is that any post that included (such as in a code sample) >> the standard XML escape sequence of < which stands for '<' will in >> the imported version just have a '<'. There should be no cases or >> next to none cases of this though. >> >> Note that any threads you were subscribed to previously (either >> because you explicitly subscribed to them, or because you checked the >> appropriate check-box when creating a thread) will need to be >> subscribed to again. >> >> All user accounts should have imported successfully. Note that any >> user signatures containing quotes in them will need light editing, as >> " came across as \". >> >> Be aware that as opposed to the old phpBB vehaviour, when displaying >> threads in a forum vBulletin defaults to only the last month's worth. >> Another value (e.g. all posts) may be easily specified via the >> dropdown at the bottom of the thread listing. >> >> Expect the look and feel (theme) of the site to change over the next >> few weeks. Due to issues with phpBB it was considered important to >> make this switch now, before secondary aspects such as a final look >> and feel were fully done. >> >> Working against the limitation that existing posts must not be lost, >> it will be our goal on an ongoing basis to continue to enhance the >> user experience on the forums. This means we will in the future >> further enhance the feature set with plugins to vBulletin, new >> versions of vBulletin, or even a move to other software where that >> makes sense and a clean conversion is possible. >> >> Regards, >> Colin >> __________________ >> Colin Sampaleanu >> Interface21 - Spring Training, Consulting, and Support, "From the >> Source" >> http://www.springframework.com >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. >> Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course >> Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 >> Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information >> _______________________________________________ >> Springframework-developer mailing list >> Spr...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/springframework-developer >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. > Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course > Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 > Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information > _______________________________________________ > Springframework-developer mailing list > Spr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/springframework-developer > |
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From: Andy D. <an...@ma...> - 2005-10-24 16:54:46
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I notice the new forum software allows one to subscribe to threads (so that you receive e-mail notifications). What I'm wondering is if the software provides a maillist style option, where I can receive messages posted to certain forums (not just threads) in e-mail form, just like a mail list? - Andy |
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From: Colin S. <col...@ex...> - 2005-10-25 03:21:51
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Andy Depue wrote: >I notice the new forum software allows one to subscribe to threads (so that >you receive e-mail notifications). What I'm wondering is if the software >provides a maillist style option, where I can receive messages posted to >certain forums (not just threads) in e-mail form, just like a mail list? > > Yoiu c_can_ subscribe to an entier forum, but only to get a daily or weekly digest. There is no way to get it to send you individual posts as emails. Regards, Colin |
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From: Andy D. <an...@ma...> - 2005-10-24 21:15:05
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In regard to the recent forum upgrade, I've run across several messages that refer to other threads via URL. Here is an example message body: > please refer to the proposed solution for more info > http://forum.springframework.org/viewtopic.php?t=7554 This link does not work. Would it be possible to create a redirecting "viewtopic.php" that could translate from the old URL format to the new format, or is some of this information lost? - Andy |
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From: Colin S. <col...@ex...> - 2005-10-25 03:20:55
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Andy Depue wrote: >In regard to the recent forum upgrade, I've run across several messages that >refer to other threads via URL. Here is an example message body: > > > >>please refer to the proposed solution for more info >>http://forum.springframework.org/viewtopic.php?t=7554 >> >> > >This link does not work. Would it be possible to create a redirecting >"viewtopic.php" that could translate from the old URL format to the new >format, or is some of this information lost? > > It owuld be trivial to redirect the old format to the new one, with an apache rule, but the problem is that the thread IDs are completely different. So there is no way to set up a generic rule that will cover all cases. It would be possible to set up individual regexes to map some old messages to new ones, but this is probably unrealistic, as there would be a decent number... |
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From: Andy D. <an...@ma...> - 2005-10-25 15:42:00
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On Monday 24 October 2005 08:20 pm, Colin Sampaleanu wrote: > It owuld be trivial to redirect the old format to the new one, with an > apache rule, but the problem is that the thread IDs are completely > different. So there is no way to set up a generic rule that will cover > all cases. It would be possible to set up individual regexes to map some > old messages to new ones, but this is probably unrealistic, as there > would be a decent number... I take it the old numbers were lost in conversion. That's too bad... would it be out of the question to pull an old backup? Even then, I have no idea how hard it would be to map between the old and the new numbers. If a table could be built with the old and new, then it would be a simple lookup. - Andy |
