I’m interested in implemented an NNTP front end for rforum. I’ve
written one for a rails based blog a number of months ago and I’d like
to clean it up and try to attach it to different piece of software. I
have a few questions:
What is the module system mentioned in the road map?
Is there a better source of information other than trac? i.e. irc
channel or something where people hang out?
A while ago i wrote the acts_as_nested_set helper in rails based upon
code i found poking around the source of rforum, so since you inspired
me to learn something new I’d like to give you something also.
Will Schenk wrote:
I’m interested in implemented an NNTP front end for rforum. I’ve
written one for a rails based blog a number of months ago and I’d like
to clean it up and try to attach it to different piece of software. I
have a few questions:
What is the module system mentioned in the road map?
It’s not functional at the moment, and wouldn’t be suited for something
like a NNTP server anyway.
I have written a NNTP server for another forum a few years ago. I
started porting it to RForum, but there hasn’t been any progress lately.
I thought that mailing list integration would be more important, since
there are already some NNTP/Mailing list gateways.
If you want to give it a try you could probably make use of some of the
functions that were implemented for the mailing list gateway
(controllers/mailer.rb, lib/received_mail.rb) or my NNTP server skeleton
(http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/browser/trunk/server/). I don’t trust
ActiveRecord to be thread safe, so a threaded server would probably need
a lot of mutexing to make it work reliably.
Is there a better source of information other than trac? i.e. irc
channel or something where people hang out?
No, only this forum. I registered #rforum on freenode a long time ago,
but I’m pretty much the only one who knows about it, and I don’t hang
out in IRC very often.
A while ago i wrote the acts_as_nested_set helper in rails based upon
code i found poking around the source of rforum, so since you inspired
me to learn something new I’d like to give you something also.
That’s a good idea 
Andreas