[Mageia-discuss] Mailing List to Web Forum Bidirectional Gateway

[Tux99]

I have set up a test web forum with bidirectional gateway to the
Mageia mailing lists.
I did this primarily to test the forum<>ML gateway functionality
with the hope that it will be also implemented in the future
official Mageia forum.

This forum ML gateway is in no way meant to preempt or compete with
the future official forum, on the contrary once the official forum is
up and running (hopefully with equivalent functionality), I expect
to shutdown this test forum again.

The forum has already been filling up with posts since Friday
afternoon, and it also creates automatically a forum user for every
unique email address of senders of mailing list posts.

Therefore if you have posted on the mailing lists in the past couple
of days, you will find that you already have a forum userid.
If you want to make use of it, go to the forum login page, enter
your email address (the same one you use for the mailing lists!),
click on "forgot password" and wait to receive an email for the
password reset procedure.

Once you have your password you can login and post messages in the
mailing list forums, which then will also be posted to the mailing
lists.

If you only want to use the forum to read the mailing list posts,
then of course you don't need to register/login at all.

Please notice that the FIRST post for each user from the forum to the
mailing lists takes about 5 minutes to get through, this is because
the Mageia mailing lists have grey-listing active to avoid spam.

If you don't already have an automatically added userid on the forum,
then you can register as new user, but please make sure that you use
the SAME EMAIL ADDRESS as you used to subscribe to the mailing lists,
otherwise your posts to the mailing list will need to be manually
approved by the Mageia mailing list admins, which means they will
be delayed.

Also to avoid spammers, every new user registration on the forum
requires moderator (that would be me :) approval, so it can take
up to 24 hours (but usually much less).

Here is the direct link to the forum members pages, look here to
see if you already have a userid:
 http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/index.php?t=finduser&usr_login=&u
s=2&btn_submit=Find

The forum main page is here:
http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/

Myself and a few others have been testing the forum in the last few
days, so I can say it's stable and works well, but of course it hasn't
been tested under heavy load yet, so please be gentle... :)
(this forum is running on a relatively low power rented virtual server
so don't expect great performance under heavy load)

If you have any problems with the forum itself, please post them in
the dedicated sub-forum called "Forum discussion", don't post them
here on the Mageia ML as it would be off topic.
This sub-forum is obviously not replicated on any Mageia mailing list.

I hope it will be useful for those of us who prefer a web forum rather
than mailing lists, but still want to  partecipate in the mailing list
discussions!