I have experience in forum administration.Probably we can try phpbb, that's
easier to understand and modify.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Axel <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Philip,
>
>
> On 07/04/10 15:50, Philip Chee wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:01:43 +0200, Brian King wrote:
>
> One thing I noticed is that the AMO website development irc channel is
> very active. Perhaps we can use that model to restart the mozdev website
> maintenance and uplift process.
>
>  I kind of find IRC awkward for exchanging information like this - if we
> could direct some of the people interested in this to this list the results
> might be more permanent. On top we could draw up any changes / additions on
> the mozdev wiki pages
>
> ( such as  http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/New-People)
>
>
>
>  No doubt many of the AMO developers are
> paid contractors but having an active volunteer team with one or two
> central gate-keepers rather than a bunch of formal "positions" where
> each person is responsible for one particular area might encourage more
> people to chip in if it appears to them that the barriers to entry are
> relatively low.
>
>
>  agreed,  although it will be necessary to have some responsible Admin
> Personell with the necessary permissions to change stuff.
>
>  It might be good to move the actual mozdev site source code to something
> more modern like SVN which would encourage people to download the code
> and work on it. How complete is the wossname hovercraft package and how
> easy is it for some vounteeer with some sysadmin experience to install
> mozdev locally for testing purposes?
>
>
>  SVN sounds like a good system, google code uses it as well. And its easy
> enough so even I understand it. but lets not have pie in the sky maybe it
> should just be owned by the new people first because I fear are no resources
> left to pull it over. It wouldn't be good make a fresh start with a broken
> system.
>
>  :)
>
>
>  Drupal: The problem is that this is fairly intimidating and the barriers
> to entry are very high. Most of us however have experience running (or
> at least moderating) a webforum running PHPbbs or Invision Powerboard.
>
>
>  Like I said before, is the main part of the site independent from drupal?
> (My impression was the forums were the main reasons for drupal) If this was
> a major stumbling block, I would suggest dropping the forums (or archiving
> them) with a view to replacing them with something easier - does anybody on
> this list have experience with forum administration or could come up with a
> simpler alternative?
>
> The most important site parts, from a technical standpoint in order of
> precedence would be:
> 1 - Extension homepages (for linking from extension - about)
> 2 - Projects & Project Member Administration
> 3 - Bug Tracking
> 4 - Source Hosting (I would say this could be outsourced, if necessary)
> ...
> ...  (please insert missing items here ... )
> ...
>
> 5 - Forums (drupal?)
> 6 - Blogs (drupal?)
> 7 - Shop
>
>
> I think we need to set up some Wiki Pages on Mozdev in order to get a full
> list of parts. I just leave this list here for you currently active Mozdev
> admins and Project owners to complete / discuss, this is just shooting from
> the hip, so apologies if I left out important things or got the order
> wrong..
>
>
> Axel
>
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