SilverStripe

Forum boasts OpenID and other improvements

Posted by Sigurd on 21 December 2007

Version 0.12 of the our forum module has just been released. One of the key improvements is making it easier to register and login to forums, thanks to an ongoing effort by Markus Lanthaler who joined us for Google Summer of Code at the start of 2007.

Markus added OpenID support, including the use of attribute exchange.This means visitors to your forum can store their personal details (name, email, password, etc) in one place and not have to manually type them in when registering to your forum, saving them time. The fact your password is centralised is also more secure and convienient than might expect; I hate the fact that if I sign up to a system that any password I use could easily be tried on another account, and OpenID solves that.

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Forum Reorganised

Posted by Sigurd on 8 November 2007

We've made some improvements to the online infrastructure that runs the SilverStripe community.

The Bugs, Contributions, and Feature Request forums were replaced with a proper issue tracker and patch submission system so these forums have now been removed. There's now a prominent explanation at the bottom of the forum overview. 

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Forum module v0.1 released

Posted by Sigurd on 8 July 2007

We've been busy working on the forum code recently, adding new features and making it work out of the box.

We're encouraging people to download it and give us feedback while we work towards a 1.0 release. The version number, 0.1, was used to explain that it contains only the core features of a forum (as opposed to being buggy).

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SilverStripe community forum updated

Posted by Sigurd on 7 July 2007

The forum running on our website has been updated to reflect the fact we're about to release it as a SilverStripe module. Now you can...

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Forum nearing release

Posted by Sigurd on 29 June 2007

The forum module is nearing release and as a preliminary step we've made the code available at dailybuilds.silverstripe.com so that developers can see how a module is constructed, and help with our testing process. Brief installation instructions exist. The forum module will be released as a stable download once documentation and remaining bugs have been fixed and tested.

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