Now that the release is out, probably a good time to reignite this thread.
I think it would be really nice to have a phpbb3 forum integrated at the forum link on the www.open-emr.org site that has the open-emr.org site skin (banner and footer like the wiki is set up).
Anybody interested in trying to set up a phpbb3 testing instance somewhere to begin trying to get all the functionality (and openemr skin) described in above thread; this will likely take some time and some customized phpbb3 coding, but would be well worth it. When it’s ready, then can figure out where to put it (note the site it ends up on is not very important and can be decided later; the important thing is it appears to be integrated within the open-emr.org site theme).
In this world of virtualization, which I really don’t understand, isn’t it possible for the oemr and open-emr headers to point to the same pages? Couldn’t those pages be embedded in a wrapper that would refer to a style sheet for either open-emr or oemr? If that trick is possible, then all that would be needed to combine the forums would be to agree on moderators for the various topics.
Since we already have the phpbb3 bulletin board set up and running on the oemr.org site why waste time doing it again and maintaining it in two places. Seems really odd to even request that. Just point the users at oemr.org. We can create whatever categories are requested for Users and Help.
-Tony www.oemr.org
Tony,
Please read through the thread to get an idea of the features requested; there are a lot of likely tough to incorporate features which will require a testing instance before even considering deploying a production instance. Also, regarding the migration of any project tool to oemr.org, I think both Rod and myself covered that with you by email already. I suggest you respond in kind.
thanks,
-brady
Another option is going with phpbb2 so we can use the Mail2Forum module, which seems much better than the above phorum’s solution, because it does not need an external mailing list set up (sadly, this module is still being worked on for phpbb3 and it seems there is not that much development activity there).
I guess the two questions that come to mind are:
Is phpbb2 secure enough, since it’s an older version?
Is it easy to upgrade from phpbb2 to phpbb3 (when mail2forum becomes available for phpbb3)
Allura is a lot better that the current model, on the surface at least. But I haven’t used it for real. Are there any of our developers using it one other projects. It’s been the default for new project for a long while now.
Tony www.mi-squared.com / @tonymi2 oemr.org / @OEMR_org