<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Interesting article on the portlet JSRs: <a href="https://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/01/20/jsr-286-portlet-irrelevance.html">https://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/01/20/jsr-286-portlet-irrelevance.html</a><div>-- DM</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <<a href="mailto:scribe@crosswire.org">scribe@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'd prefer not to take the conversation to sword-devel. Now that I am done with my project for the INTF, my hope is to utilize the frameworks I've built for projects at CrossWire. This includes running a liferay installation which is a fully compliant JSR-168 and 286 portlet container as well as an OpenSocial container. I'm sure we could find a forum portlet or use the one that ships with liferay. You can see it their forums in action on their own site if you'd like to evaluate:<br>
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<a href="http://www.liferay.com/community/forums">http://www.liferay.com/community/forums</a><br>
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<pre class="k9mail"><br>On Nov 20, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Chris Little <<a href="mailto:chrislit@crosswire.org">chrislit@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On 11/20/2013 11:07 AM, DM Smith wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Do you want me to stop the fb server?<br><br>What are the web apps that use it? (besides news and forums)<br><br>News can't possibly be creating the problem. For all practical purposes,<br>it is read-only.<br><br>Can we make the forums read-only and put up a banner that it is locked down?<br><br>-- DM</blockquote><br>I disabled new registrations on the servers, which I predict will prevent the pegging problem.<br><br>I couldn't find a sensible way to switch off registrations through the admin panel, so I went after the addmember.jsp file itself and moved it to /home/forums/servers/main/webapps/forums/mvnplugin/mvnforum/user/addmember.bak<br><br>--Chris</blockquote><br>I've been looking for a replacement. Should we take the discussion to sword-devel?<br><br>I think the key features that people have mentioned are:<br> Something that is actively maintained.<br> Something that does threading and quoting.<br> Something w/ decent spam and user management support.<br> Must work on RHEL 6. Good if it is part of the distribution.<br> Open source<br><br>The most popular db for forums is mysql. Very few work w/ firebird.<br><br>I'm willing to be an active admin for the software and database, but not the forum.<br><br>If we can come up w/ something to try, I can install it this weekend. Maybe sooner.<br><br>How about we try "myBB"?<br><br>See <a href="http://mybb.com/features">http://myBB.com/features</a><br><br><br>If we want to import current rather than start over empty:<br><br>vBulletin can import from mvnForum. It's the only one I could find that handles mvnForum.<br><br>myBB can import from vBulletin.<br><br>-- DM<br><br></pre><div style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><pre class="k9mail"><hr><br>server-admins mailing list<br><a href="mailto:server-admins@crosswire.org">server-admins@crosswire.org</a><br><a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/server-admins">http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/server-admins</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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