uhsarp wrote on Tuesday, July 05, 2011:
Hello Everyone!
I’m wondering if there are any plans to move these forums to phpbb or something. The sourceforge forums seems to be very feature limited and the search doesn’t seem to work half the time. It just shows a blank page sometimes. Anyone else facing similar issues?
Thanks to the community for this wonderful project!
tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, July 06, 2011:
I have been attending a lot of Open Source conventions and gatherings lately and talking to lot of people about this an the universal themes are:
1) All development and support discussions take place on mailing lists, not forums or bulletin boards
2) All project centric and team planning meetings take place on IRC channels
3) The project data, FAQ and information websites all have a main site backed up with a wiki of some sort
4) Source code is in Git or Mercurial, mostly on Github and many have begun to use Github’s new bug tracking features or they deploy their own on their site,.
We are not far off from that actually.
1) We don’t have an email list server that people could subscribe to, but …
2) We do have an under used IRC channel on freenode.net #OpenEMR
3) We have a website and wiki, Dr Bowen is working on improving the website, porting it to Drupal 7.
4) We use Git, heavily.
All we really need is a mailing list server and archive. SF almost works for that, but not quite as well as it could. I might be worth while to move bug tracking to github since thats where all the reviews happen already and the code/branches would then be tied together automatically.
-Tony
sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, July 06, 2011:
Mailing lists work better for smaller groups. I don’t think that would be very practical for us, we’d all be drowning in mail. Email is also less reliable than it used to be, due to multiple problems surrounding spam and spam filtering.
acmoore wrote on Wednesday, July 06, 2011:
I’d love to use a mailing list or two instead of the sourceforge forums. I find it easier to format and edit, and git makes it easy to send patches through email.
Here’s a previous similar discussion: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202506/topic/3725447
-Andy
bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, July 06, 2011:
hi,
Recommend reading Andy’s posted link to not rehash anything. Every open source community is different. Since we’re a medical application we draw in lots of medical people (ie. computer laypeople) whom are gonna be more accustomed to forums rather than mailing lists. Lots of our post on the developer forums are by testers whom are generally within this category of user also. Main worry is that creating additional hurdles to access/post will decrease the rate we accumulate testers and novice developers. Also, from Andy’s posted link, my reasoning there still stands. Again, though, this is up to the community. Perhaps when the sourceforge bug is fixed, things won’t seem so bad…
-brady
uhsarp wrote on Friday, July 08, 2011:
what about phpbb? It is easy on the end users who aren’t tech savvy and has lots of useful features.