On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:59:40 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >John Fitzsimons writes:
> > Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman > > mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and > > vica versa ? >Precisely what does a "web forum" do? Have threaded web discussions. Eg. http://www.phpbb.com/about/ http://www.phorum.org/ etc. >Would Trac Never heard of it. Doesn't look remotely like the above. IMO clearly for those who are familiar with Linux and/or are programmers. >or Roundup serve? Much the same thing. I don't even see any web forums at that site. >These are nominally "issue trackers" (and Trac is bundled with a wiki >which might or might not be attractive for your purpose). However, >what they basically do is manage threads. Roundup is quite good at >integrating mail and web submissions at least for its purpose (but it >doesn't thread automatically; instead, each issue might be thought of >as a manually specified thread). I don't know how well Trac handles >mail submissions, I only use the web interface of the Tracs I deal >with. >Roundup is a hairball, Sounds like something one should warn one's cat about. Or one's barber. >but very very configurable. If one is a Linux guru. That isn't me. >Trac is a lot more >slick but at least in the incarnation where I met it >(bugs.macosforge.org circa summer 2007) it was a ponderous >unconfigurable beast requiring massive admin attention to get the >smallest tweak implemented (or maybe it's just that the MacPorts folks >can't admin their way out of a paper bag, I've seen other symptoms to >suggest that's the case, so don't take this as entirely negative on >Trac -- not to mention that lots of people love it). >I've briefly mentioned integrating some Roundup functions with the >mailman interface to Barry but that hasn't gone anywhere yet. I have mentioned previously that if something needs root access, or familiarity with Linux, then it is of little use to me. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org