[server-admins] Firebird Server pegging

[DM Smith]

Interesting article on the portlet JSRs: https://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/01/20/jsr-286-portlet-irrelevance.html
-- DM

On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

> I'd prefer not to take the conversation to sword-devel. Now that I am done with my project for the INTF, my hope is to utilize the frameworks I've built for projects at CrossWire. This includes running a liferay installation which is a fully compliant JSR-168 and 286 portlet container as well as an OpenSocial container. I'm sure we could find a forum portlet or use the one that ships with liferay. You can see it their forums in action on their own site if you'd like to evaluate:
> 
> http://www.liferay.com/community/forums
> 
> 
> DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 20, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11/20/2013 11:07 AM, DM Smith wrote:
> Do you want me to stop the fb server?
> 
> What are the web apps that use it? (besides news and forums)
> 
> News can't possibly be creating the problem. For all practical purposes,
> it is read-only.
> 
> Can we make the forums read-only and put up a banner that it is locked down?
> 
> -- DM
> 
> I disabled new registrations on the servers, which I predict will prevent the pegging problem.
> 
> I couldn't find a sensible way to switch off registrations through the admin panel, so I went after the addmember.jsp file itself and moved it to /home/forums/servers/main/webapps/forums/mvnplugin/mvnforum/user/addmember.bak
> 
> --Chris
> 
> I've been looking for a replacement. Should we take the discussion to sword-devel?
> 
> I think the key features that people have mentioned are:
>  Something that is actively maintained.
>  Something that does threading and quoting.
>  Something w/ decent spam and user management support.
>  Must work on RHEL 6. Good if it is part of the distribution.
>  Open source
> 
> The most popular db for forums is mysql. Very few work w/ firebird.
> 
> I'm willing to be an active admin for the software and database, but not the forum.
> 
> If we can come up w/ something to try, I can install it this weekend. Maybe sooner.
> 
> How about we try "myBB"?
> 
> See http://myBB.com/features
> 
> 
> If we want to import current rather than start over empty:
> 
> vBulletin can import from mvnForum. It's the only one I could find that handles mvnForum.
> 
> myBB can import from vBulletin.
> 
> -- DM
> 
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