[Mageia-dev] A comparison of forum software from a security POV

Mon Sep 27 20:58:00 CEST 2010

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 14:50, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Ireneusz Gierlach at 27/09/10 19:09 did gyre and gimble:
+>>  I know you guys are talking about forum software only (I'm jumping in
+>> the middle of the conversation so i'm not sure), but there is a
+>> developer platform called redmine. http://www.redmine.org/ It's in Ruby
+>> on Rails and has like Forum, Wiki, Roadmaps, issue tracking and so on.
+>> As far as I know its GPL.
+>
+> I think a lot of the constructs and principles in redmine (and other
+> trac-like systems) are not really geared towards a full distro type
+> system. Certainly I doubt the repository viewers etc. will be sufficient
+> and the forum component is also likely rather simplistic compared to
+> fully-fledge forums. I doubt very much we'd want to use anything other
+> than bugzilla for issue tracking (mainly due to the history, but also
+> due to the fact that the workflow in redmine is deliberately rather
+> simple and minimal and we probably want something more rigid).
+>
+> With this in mind, if you discount issue tracking, forum and repository
+> viewer, then there are not many reasons left to make Redmine a good option.
+>
+> Don't get me wrong, I use trac (which is very similar to redmine) daily
+> and really like it, but I'm just not convinced it would be appropriate
+> for this kind of thing.
+>
+
+well, look at sites like illumos.org. They use Redmine, but they've
+managed to make it in such a way that it can function as a regular
+website too.
+
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+