Advanced Forum road map

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...

Well, they're not that hard. But I'm willing to give you a hand with them.

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.

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

+1

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

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

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