As a certified forum junkie…I’ll add my two cents… While it would be cool to have a forum type of capability built into fossil, I do think that would end up being a very deep rabbit hole and one of the things i love about fossil is the simplicity of it. There are other deep solutions such as redmine and others which provide deep collaboration capabilities…which is where that kind of feature would lead to. Otherwise, in my mind, there is not much purpose of building it into fossil itself. Collaboration such as what we see on GitHub, etc..would be cool, don’t get me wrong, but in my opinion would greatly add to complexity in fossil. I would be using one of those solutions already if I wanted a big complicated collaborative platform like that.
In terms of writing your own mail list software, I don’t know if that makes that much sense either. You might as well just move us to yahoo groups or google groups or something like that and be done with it. email is fundamentally insecure and prone to spamming there is not much way around that. In terms of converting this list to a forum, an idea I whole heartedly support, there are numerous open source solutions out there for rolling out your own forum, but yes, it does mean having a machine decked out usually with MySQL, but not always…and possibly apache, but not always. There are a few solutions that are commonly in use and basically use the same kind of markdown and most people are pretty comfortable with BBCode, for example, by now. There are a few others. There are some other new frameworks still in early stages, that are more elaborate, but in my mind its mostly eye candy, with LIKE buttons and stuff like that which is kind of overkill as a replacement for mailman. One of the old standby’s that are in use all over the internet are probably the way to go here. Some advantages of a web based forum are that old threads can live for years and be revisited at any time by anyone, very easily, with searching, etc.. Moderation and membership can be controlled perhaps more easily. > On Jun 13, 2018, at 9:18 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > > On 6/13/18, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >> If you do this atop Fossil, then you end up inches away from being able to >> provide an oft-wanted feature: email notifications on checkins, wiki article >> changes, and other Fossil events. > > Indeed, there are many advantages to just tacking a forum capability > onto Fossil. But there are also disadvantages. The biggest problem I > see is that one does not necessarily want the standard Fossil page > header and footer to appear on the forum pages. People looking for > help with an SQLite question do not need to see "Timeline", "Files", > "Branches", "Tags", and "Tickets" menu items across the top of the > page. (ex: https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md) > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
