Re: [cms-list] Re: New CMS Forum

Hi Dries,

I agree this is our problem, not yours.

But will you or drupal-support please give me some specific guidance on 
how to make these improvements?

Dries Buytaert wrote:

> I second that CMS Forum has a usability issue, yet I don't think that's
>
>Drupal's fault.  As a Drupal implementation, CMS Forum can be improved a
>lot.
>
Let's do it.

>CMS Forum is using Drupal, and Drupal's forum module in a rather peculiar
>way.  More specifically, they are using 'forum topics' as 'forums' and
>'forum comments' as 'forum topics'.  Clearly, it is all mixed up and bound
>to confuse people.
>
Pleas help us correct this, or we will simply start over with a new 
design/architecture if necessary.  We have also started a CMS Wiki 
knowledge base using Tiki. (See http://www.cmswiki.com).

>Secondly, the fact e-mail bodies are copy-pasted into the forums comments
>makes it all look somewhat weird - especially because all posts appear to
>be posted by either 'administrator' or 'Bob Doyle'. 
>
As you know Dries, the idea was to seed the forum topics with valuable 
discussions over the past year or so on the cms-list.  We hope with time 
that discussions will take place on the CMS Forum itself.  But for now, 
it is a structured repository of important interchanges on the cms-list.

>Take a look at
>kerneltrap.org, another Drupal site.  It's owner, Jeremy, reports
>noteworthy discussions from the Linux Kernel mailing list in a way that is
>_much_ easier to grasp and read.  (Example:  
>http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1879)
>
I checked out http://www.kerneltrap.org.  I don't see immediately the 
difference in their use of Forums and Forum Topics.  But I do like the 
clear sequence of emails in node/view/1879.  Will you please explain how 
this is done?  It appears to be email directly to the Forum or Forum 
Topic?  Perhaps Jeremy can give us a hand?  I could not find a contact 
for him on kerneltrap.

>Lastly, most of the time the site's theme appears to be broken in Mozilla
>Firebird 0.7.
>
Can some expert in the drupal support community help identify the error 
in the style sheet or theme template?

>Do you think htpp://drupal.org/ has a usability problem?
>  
>
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