Sep 3, 2008: Ok, keeping this up to date hasn't happened. I've moved these all into issues and will just keep them up in the queue.
Issue queues are great for keeping track of individual issues but I find it handy to summarize everything into one document to be able to see the big picture. This post will, of course, get out of date quickly, but I'll revise it from time to time. The current revision was done on August 10, 2008.
D5 bugs:
D6 bugs:
http://drupal.org/node/274613 - Changing the theme directory doesn't work
http://drupal.org/node/274978 - Fix call to signature_forum
D5/D6 bugs:
http://drupal.org/node/263892 - Forum names not indented when browsing parent category
New features (not in order):
Forum listing page:
http://drupal.org/node/219549 - Add option to compact sub forums
http://drupal.org/node/244329 - Change icon when subforums have new posts
http://drupal.org/node/238668 - Show number of new comments, not just new topics
http://drupal.org/node/290327 - Create view of new forum posts and add to top links
http://drupal.org/node/266682 - Forum statistics
http://drupal.org/node/291084 - Collapsable containers
http://drupal.org/node/109924 - List forum moderators
http://drupal.org/node/276577 - Integrate taxonomy image to show per forum icons
- Welcome message at top of forum listing
- Jump to latest comment in latest thread on forum overview
Topic listing page:
http://drupal.org/node/210453 - Forum drop down list
http://drupal.org/node/244492 - Icons for attachments, ratings, etc
http://drupal.org/node/290327 - Create view of new forum posts and add to top links
http://drupal.org/node/260295 - (D5) Signature doesn't show on nodes
- Hover over topic in listing shows post teaser in popup
- Separate spot on top for announcements
Individual threads:
http://drupal.org/node/210453 - Forum drop down list
http://drupal.org/node/208440 - Theme forum post preview to match forum theme
http://drupal.org/node/250112 - Have userpoints section make use of the points branding
http://drupal.org/node/234593 - Classes to show (un)published and post is by current user
http://drupal.org/node/269560 - Hide forum selection from non moderators
http://drupal.org/node/268421 - Add edit/delete button in links section on nodes
- Add support for avatars sized by imagecache
- Member #UID
- Show whole thread when replying
- Ajaxified quick reply
- Ajaxified quick edit
- Icon by comment titles
- Jump to top within each comment
- Add multiple quoting
- Show number of posts in thread
- Pager on top
Other:
http://drupal.org/node/254795 - Revisit issue of incorporating flatcomments.
http://drupal.org/node/228557 - New method of gathering information from other contrib modules needs to be ported to D6.
http://drupal.org/node/268684 - Redo default theme to be more solid, correct, and easy to re-theme
http://drupal.org/node/250806 - Integrate simple post counting code
- Integrate readpath module
- Pager X of Y
- Make it easy to use phpbb icon sets
- Default views: Recent forum posts, Unanswered forum posts, Popular forum posts
- Icon legend
- Search in forum / topic
- Add option to settings page to set up core forum/comments in the best way to work with advforum
Postponed until at least 2.x
http://drupal.org/node/252662 Forum replies as nodes
Panels integration
Forum administration module
Comments
Go for it
Isn't this amazing that this module is such a huge success despite being only alpha. Well, sure it is a glue module and won't produce very bad functional bugs.
I think it reflects a need in people to have a forum that looks like other forums right out-of-the-box. It is often mentioned people decide against Drupal because they miss a nice forum, or the even implement a third-party-solution.
I'm having a hard time to decide whether there should be more amazing innovative (and mind-bendingly complicated ;) sorry, Merlin) Stuff like Panels 2, or simple mainstream things like a nice Forum. Surely we need both. But serving the mainstream and giving them a forum, a shop and nice Themes has long been a bit neglected.
Good to see that gaping holes are beginning to be closed, and the car can go smoothly...
Simpletests aren't hard...
Well, they're not that hard. But I'm willing to give you a hand with them.
How does 6.x correlate with
How does 6.x correlate with 5.x? Is 6.x developement parallel to 5.x (with new features added) or is it basically ported from 5.x-alpha?
I plan to use adv-forum on a 6.x site I will be working on, and I'd like to help as much as I can to bring 6.x to a stable state. Shall I start by checking out 5.x and help port it to 6.x later, or submit patches directly for 6.x? Thanks.
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eigentor: Yes, this is an area that has had people complaining for a long time. It was always possible to theme forums to look like traditional forums but the work involved was intimidating to new people and non coders.
John: Thanks for the offer. I haven't looked into it at all so I haven't the foggiest idea how hard they are.
Jim: I currently am doing all the work in 5.x and then porting the changes to 6.x as I make them. Unfortunately, I got out of sync and neglected 6.x for a while and it fell behind. I need to clean up 6.x and get it caught back up to 5.x and then I'll keep them in sync again. I don't expect to shift primary development to 6.x until late summer maybe early fall.
The branches are very similar except where changes were needed due to changes in core. I'm no good with patches and just read them and add the code manually, anyway, so it doesn't matter too much which version they are for. I'll make the code work with both.
Thanks,
Michelle
hmm
+1
Advanced Forum 5.x-1.0-alpha
I am using advanced_forum on my dev sites without too much trouble, thank you.
One strange part, and I don't remember if it was in v 5 or v 6 - I got an error that some files were not in and advforum directory in my theme's directory so I copied the advforum directory there from the module and that seems to fix the error..
Didn't think to report as an issue at drupal.org - been kinda busy
I am pretty sure it was v 5 http://4m.netsperience.org
Report what?
I don't know what you would report... You got the warning that you hadn't copied your files so you copied them and the warning went away. Sounds like it's working as expected.
Michelle
Editor
Sorry that this is not a Advanced forum question but I could not resist..
This editor for posting comments looks very cool. It does not look like the FCKeditor or YUI....
What editor is this?
How hard is this to integrate into a Drupal site?
Thanks much.
Anil Garg