Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating with a forum
On 2011-05-29 5:22 PM, Ed Pastore wrote: > In there, you can see that I did find M2F, which appears to be a > list<->forum integrator. Great. But it only works with phpBB 2. Not only > is phpBB2 out of date, but also from past experience I find phpBB to be > pretty underwhelming. So I'd like to use a more sophisticated (but still > FOSS) forum such as MyBB (or others if you can suggest one that is up to > the task). There is an alpha of M2F that claims to it eventually will do > the trick, but it is indeed very alpha. I prefer SimpleMachines forums myself... www.simplemachines.org But I would dearly love to see a reliable and secure method of integrating my forums with mailman... I do believe that with the new architecture of MM3, this is supposed to be much more easily doable...? -- 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
[Mailman-Users] Integrating with a forum
Ed Pastore writes: > I'm posting here to see if anyone has any better insights than I have > had so far and/or any comments on my existing document linked > above. It looks like the webforum world is pretty thoroughly PHP-based, about which I know nothing, so I have no technical comments. > Apart from the technical difficulties, the additional problem I see is > with message overload. So I'm thinking of setting a second list. The > existing one would be a full bidirectional mirror of the forum, and a > new one would just be an announce list of any new topics posted to > either (ie, anything that is a new topic on the forum or a new thread > on the list). Consider an RSS feed for this, too. > Or can I do that with umbrella lists somehow? No, I don't think that really does what you want. I don't see an obvious way to do this other than to just have two lists, with the new topic list reply-to munged to the main list. I suppose they should be sibling lists, though. > I further want the forum to support OpenID. I imagine that adds > additional layers of complexity when combined with list integration. Not if OpenID is just one way to authenticate. The spamfiltering on the list will handle troublemakers there, and the forum just trusts the list and vice versa. If you require that list members and forum participants all use OpenID, then it would get complicated. -- 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
[Mailman-Users] Integrating with a forum
Hi, folks. I admin a list for a community which wants to expand our list to a forum. Some of us really like list communication; others would prefer a forum. Instead of forcing the issue, we want to do both, with bidirectional mirroring. I know this issue has been raised before, and I know it's tricky. I'm not a programmer, but we have a programmer on hand who is willing to do the integration. All I need to do is scope the requirements properly. Here is my initial requirements definition, which is all very tentative: http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Forum_integration In there, you can see that I did find M2F, which appears to be a list<- >forum integrator. Great. But it only works with phpBB 2. Not only is phpBB2 out of date, but also from past experience I find phpBB to be pretty underwhelming. So I'd like to use a more sophisticated (but still FOSS) forum such as MyBB (or others if you can suggest one that is up to the task). There is an alpha of M2F that claims to it eventually will do the trick, but it is indeed very alpha. I'm posting here to see if anyone has any better insights than I have had so far and/or any comments on my existing document linked above. Apart from the technical difficulties, the additional problem I see is with message overload. So I'm thinking of setting a second list. The existing one would be a full bidirectional mirror of the forum, and a new one would just be an announce list of any new topics posted to either (ie, anything that is a new topic on the forum or a new thread on the list). Or can I do that with umbrella lists somehow? Am I dreaming. Is this just way too complicated to tackle? I further want the forum to support OpenID. I imagine that adds additional layers of complexity when combined with list integration. Any thoughts on any of this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ed Pastore http://metagovernment.org/wiki/User:Ed_Pastore -- 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
