Forum Improvements
Drupal's core forum module on its own does not have all the features of stand alone software such as vBulletin and phpBB. Because of this, many people discount Drupal's ability to provide a forum for their site and look to bridges to use stand alone software with Drupal. But Drupal is capable of doing most of what such programs provide when you make use of the many forum related contributed modules.
The goals of this group are as follows:
- Strengthen the core forum to provide a solid foundation. This includes improving the code, speeding up the queries, and possibly radical changes such as moving away from comments for replies.
- Continue work on the contributed modules that make up a full forum.
- Create new contributed modules that fill in any gaps in functionality.
- Provide documentation to help people put together a complete forum package.
- Create an install profile or distribution that puts together everything needed to build a forum in an easy to set up and install package.
Anyone with an interest in Drupal as a forum is welcome to join in the discussion. This is not, however, a support group so please use the issue queues and Drupal.org's forums for support requests. Also, please do not post jobs in this group.
Note: This group was formed from the existing "drubb" group on Oct 23, 2008.
Drupal 7 core forum module - plan of attack
Drupal's core forum module is much maligned. Some of this is unjustified - people expecting it to replace standalone solutions by itself and ignoring the nature of Drupal's modular framework. However, it also has some limitations which are a result of its age and require many workarounds for large community sites.
Many of the forum module's limitations are down to its dependency on the taxonomy module (making it hard to integrate with organic groups etc.) and on comment.module, which is itself in need of a rewrite.
So we're proposing a ground up rewrite of forum.module using nodes.
Master feature list
For the DruBB project, I took some time and wrote up a spreadsheet with all the feature requests plus features found in vBulletin and phpBB. I went through and noted what is covered by core/contrib already and what still needs to be done (FR). It could use some more tidying up but is a good start to seeing what's done and what's needed. You can see the spreadsheet here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r2eQ3XwGh1X7jZEa9wMNatg&output=ht...
Michelle
Media in comments
In the Mustard Seed Media podcast http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode29 Rob said IMCE is the past and that the Media module is the future and that using IMCE for image upload should be abandoned in favor of the upcoming Media module.
While the roadmap and intended featuritis looks great .. I have an important use case which apparently isn't being considered. Namely attaching images and perhaps other media to comments.
It looks like this is only considering adding them to the node, and not to the comments.
What are the issues with threaded comments?
I see discussions about removing threading from comments, and I'd like to make a plea for keeping this feature.
Which way for comments in Drupal 7?
No one likes to play with comment.module, it's long neglected, manages to just about keep up with its basic tasks OK (making it not so broken as to invite a flood of patches), but singularly fails when you want to do anything clever with it due to fairly fundamental architecutural issues (making it a pain to write patches for). But core standards are improving, and it can only limp along for so long.
Group revamping in progress
As of today, I've taken over this group and am in the process of revamping it. I can only work on it in spurts here and there so it's likely to be messy for a while. If anyone has any suggestions for what they'd like to see done with the group, let me know.
Michelle
Benefits of Drupal Forum over third party for newspaper site!
Dear All,
Request to take over drubb group
I have the perms, but I want to make sure there's a paper trail. I've sent an email to tounano@drupal.org and will give him time to respond. If no answer or if he gives his blessing, I'd like to take over drubb, rename it, and make it into the central hub for forum improvements both with core forum and contrib modules for forums.
Michelle
Is the core forum module still needed anymore?
I know that I will most likely be wrong about this, but with the advancement of CCK, Views, OG and Panels, is the forum module really necessary anymore? My idea being is that with all these "practically core" modules, isn't it feasible to create a forum with just these modules?
I can create a content type called "forum post" manually, set the taxonomy for the forums (granted containers would be an issue) and use views to custom tailor the data shown to the users. I can already create 8/10th's of the forum functionality with just that scenario. Unless I am missing something.
Advanced Forum: Forum Topic List Customizations
Hi folks. I am working with Advanced Forum on Drupal 5.7, a really great module, BTW.
I've easily figured out how to adjust the advf-forum-list.tpl.php page to make "Topics" and "Posts" into clickable links to the topic list page
Now, on the topic list page, I'd like to make both the icon and "replies" link to their respective topic in advf-forum-topic-list.tpl.php