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*[http://meego.com/users/erle Erle Pereira/eap] - minimal experience with moblin, experienced with drupal | *[http://meego.com/users/erle Erle Pereira/eap] - minimal experience with moblin, experienced with drupal | ||
*[http://meego.com/users/texrat Randall Arnold/Texrat] - Maemo Community Council member, former Nokia QA engineer for Maemo devices and best practices blogger. | *[http://meego.com/users/texrat Randall Arnold/Texrat] - Maemo Community Council member, former Nokia QA engineer for Maemo devices and best practices blogger. | ||
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== Next steps == | == Next steps == | ||
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There is no doubt that the forum module has been one of the most active, if not the most active component of a community site. It allows anyone to search for discussions almost about anything, and can start discussions about any new topic, news, or rumors. Over at talk.maemo.org, the forums/fora have been used to announce new developments, get help from the community to test apps, and suggest enhancements to the operating system.
In the first online MeeGo Community Meeting, it was identified that a Forum is one of the components that need to be added ASAP.
The main challenge for MeeGo is to properly bridge Drupal, MeeGo.com's content management system (CMS), and the Forum system to make Single Sign-On (SSO) work.
The software of choice to be used for the forum system has not been decided upon. The following table shows the proposed forum software that can be used:
| Forum Software | Drupal Forum | phpBB3 | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSO with other MeeGo services | Drupal vB, a Drupal module project, is currently the only add-on that supports the latest version of Drupal, and bridges the two systems. Drupal vB allows the following:
Me Aliases is another Drupal module project that needs to be installed in Drupal. This makes it easy to redirect users to use the Drupal member page to change their email address or password, rather than in vBulletin. Changes in the member's information (email and password) get automatically replicated to vBulletin. | ||
| SEO | Comes with searchbot friendly archive pages. vBSEO enhances vBulletin SEO by autmoatically generating and submitting sitemaps to the popular search engines. | ||
| Search | Built-in | ||
| Maintenance / Security / Upgradability | Overwrite the whole system with upgraded version, and run a standard upgrade procedure which performs all upgrades automatically. | ||
| Administration | Built-in administrator and moderator control panel | ||
| Plug-in Architecture | Built-in plug-in and product management system. | ||
| Ranking/Voting on threads/posts | Ranking and voting built-in | ||
| Karma/User Points | Post Thank You Hack | ||
| Active Forum Topics Module | Drupal vB provides a 'Block' (Drupal term) to display the Active Forum Topics on any Drupal page. A sample can be found at the right sidebar of the test site. | ||
| Compatibility with Nginx | Yes | ||
| Testing | A test site has been created to test out the bridge between Drupal and vBulletin. The main objective is to test it's functionality, make sure it's stable, and iron out bugs. The test site is being opened so anyone willing to help can help test the bridge. Some items that need to be tested are the following:
The test site is password protected. Below are the details on how to access it:
More information on where to report bugs and suggest features can be found at the front page of the site. | ||
| Support | Plug-ins, Forums, Bug Reports | ||
| Licensing | Commercial |
qgil has suggested to start clean and just create minimal categories for the mean time. The proposed structure are as follows:
It is intended to add company and device categories in the future as MeeGo powered devices are announced. Hopefully, the companies will assign moderators/primary contact persons to help with the forums.
Feel free to add yourself to the list:
| Forum Software | Drupal Forum | phpBB3 | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admnistrators |
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| Modders / Themers |
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| Testers |
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