From: William L. <wi...@co...> - 2005-06-14 20:49:14
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Christian Fowler wrote: > Hi Lester, > >> phpBB is a sidetrack that is detracting from getting a 'finished product'. >> EITHER we are building a framework round Liberty, OR we are building a >> framework for independent packages. Has anybody made a decision yet? >> Because it seems to be fundamental to me! > > A framework inherently allows for multiple solutions. phpBB is very important > to some, and incompatible for others. If you have a phpBB forums install with > thousands of posts, someone else could make an equally founded argument. > > TikiPro was founded on the principle that all needs are considered to have > equal value. We must always be able to support solutions such that all needs > can be addressed, and simultaneously not be forced to adopt someone else's > solution. > > The only forums we have working at the moment are phpBB. TikiWiki forums for > 1.8 (the TikiPro fork branch) where very ugly, and slow and weren't > considered worthy of re-inverting "yet-another forum system". However, times > have changed, and I see three options: > > #1. TikiWiki 1.9 saw a giant leap forward, so I've heard, so. I would be very > interested in looking at maybe moving that forums system forward. > > #2. Drewslater did some awesome work on LibertyComments that are inherently a > light-weight forum system with nested threads. libertyforums/ would make a > fine package. > > #3. Integrate another third board party system. Already some discussion here: > http://www.tikipro.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=10 You may also consider taking a look at fudforum (fudforum.org). Its rather well designed with large number of features (more even then phpbb). Its looks are kind of a cross-bread between tikwiki forums and phpbb. As its already in use by at least two other cms systems so how to integrate it within other system is well known and supported. My personal opinion is that maintaining separate forum system just for tikipro is not the way to go because full forum system is not just threaded comments and involves complexity of management (moderation, post management), integration with other discussions systems (mail lists, newsgroups) and number of other complicated issues - it takes a lot of resources to do and tikipro is not large enough project (yet) to be able to assign enough resources to separate forum subproject. The better way to go is to find well maintained forum system and attempt to integrate it closer with tikipro (working with its developers if possible) which may include changing its content data to be able to handle tiki and be able to reference other tikipro elements. Whatever you decide I'll support but for now I'm sticking with phpbb because its the most well developed forum system that can be used with tikipro and I would hope that support for phpbb will continue to exist unless you're able to find comparable (in administration and other features) forum system and support migration from phpbb. --- William Leibzon mailto: wi...@co... Anti-Spam and Email Security Research Worksite: http://www.elan.net/~william/emailsecurity/ Whois & DNS Network Investigation Tools: http://www.completewhois.com |