[Mageia-sysadm] Migration of the forums

Wed Sep 19 18:50:56 CEST 2012

Hello,
+
+After yesterday meeting in #mageia-forums, and discussions on forums
+mailing list, it seems forums team do not like the way the forums are
+currently setup, and there seems to be no cooperation possible between
+sysadmin and forums admins, with most of the time spent with endless
+fights to tell who is responsible for the problem rather than trying to
+fix the problem.
+
+I am tired of spending time on this kind of thing, so in order to stop
+this, unless someone else from sysadmin team wants to work on forums,
+I suggest sysadmin team do not manage forums setup anymore.
+
+In order to do this :
+ - we remove ldap authentication from the forums. Users will have to
+   use a separate account and password for the forums. That's already
+   what they have to do if they want to use forums in other languages
+   than english and german. And after looking at database dumps from phpbb,
+   it seems it contains hash of user passwords although we are using ldap
+   for authentication, so using ldap authentication with phpbb is maybe
+   not a good idea for security anyway.
+ - they use their own server, or we provide them a VM on sucuk while
+   they don't have one
+ - they install the forums however they want, and manage them however
+   they want
+ - they use a separate domain name like mageia-forums.org or something
+   else. We can add a redirect from http://forums.mageia.org/{en,de}/ to
+   the new URL until all references to the old URLs are removed. On
+   http://forums.mageia.org/ homepage we put a listing of all Mageia
+   community forums
+ - we provide them a dump of the current forums, after cleaning user
+   passwords, and they do the install and import of the database on
+   a new forum themself
+ - we are not responsible for anything on the new forums
+
+What do you think about this ?
+
+