Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > Hello everyone, > > I know things have been rather quiet on this list of late -- but behind the > scenes, there's still plenty of things happening with FVWM. > > One of these is we're taking a look at moving the FvwmForums away from phpBB. > This was a great forum to use back in the early 2000s when there wasn't a lot > of choice. But as of the past year or so, using phpBB and maintaining it has > become a burdensome nightmare for myself and Jaimos. > > We've recently been looking at alternatives, and the one which seems to offer > equivalent functionality as phpBB (but without the perceived maintainence > nightmare), is bbPress (https://bbpress.org/). > > We've imported the forum database to stand-up the core funtionality with the > same information. This has worked fine. > > What we now need is for someone to help us theme the main bbPress instance, to > make it look like a fvwm-type website (utilising the CSS/colours from > fvwm.org). Originally, I thought I could do this, but that's not going to > happen, as I've too much other work to be getting on with. > > Plus, this would be a good project for someone. > > If anyone's interested (or you have any questions), do please let me know.
Ever since Fvwm started using forums, I find I can't track everything going on. Sorry, no inclination to follow a forum. Wish we'd go back to exclusively email. I realize there is a collection of documentation on the forums. Wish that was on the official web site instead. -- Dan Espen
