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

Mon Sep 27 22:41:05 CEST 2010

  On 09/27/2010 02:58 PM, Robert Xu wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+>
+Well its written in Ruby so maybe (if) we get a ruby dev, he can adapt 
+it to our needs specifically. On the other hand you can do that with 
+every project (in theory). But if I may ask, why does the forum need to 
+be very complex? I'm looking at multiple forums and they don't seem to 
+have much out of the ordinary...
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