Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu> writes: >On 01/05/2013 09:42 PM, Luis Villa wrote: >> I've personally never seen open source forum software that wasn't an >> abysmal nightmare from a usability perspective, whereas many people >> here have email clients that they have chosen and customized >> specifically to deal with their workflow. So I'm very reluctant to >> make anyone less productive here by forcing them to use bad software. > >I haven't tried it for a serious project yet, but Discourse is new open >source discussion software and seems quite promising. It's by some of >the people behind Stack Overflow. > >It's under GPLv2 (http://www.discourse.org/faq/). > >See http://www.discourse.org/ and http://discourse.org/ > >It is still in beta.
I tried it out, and while it looks promising, it certainly wasn't "ready for prime time" as of a few days ago. Although their web site and FAQ do not seem to say so explicitly, the code so far indicates that they regard email (incoming and outgoing) as just another way of accessing the forum conversations. If so, that would be great! http://www.rants.org/2008/03/06/thread_theory/ has my thoughts on why. But even if that's what they intend, I still don't know how ready the email functionality actually is, of course. -K _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
