Let's wait until we ?decide what kind of web support do we want to provide first.
If we decide to improve Askbot to our requirements here is some food for thought.
- http://askbot.org/
- Django webapp, forked from OSQA.
- https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel
- Most of the development is done by 2 people, they are also selling it as a service.
- The commit count looks promising: 393 (2009), 594 (2010), 1249 (2011), 1106 (2012)
Debian packaging
- RFP #687966
- Has many dependencies outside of Debian:
- akismet
- coffin
- django-keyedcache
- django-robots
- django-kombu
- django-followit
- django-recaptcha-works
- markdown2
- pystache
- pytz
- longusername
Features
- Anonymous posting: filling up the email field is required but the validity of the email is not checked.
- Email notifications:
- Asked by me
- Answered by me
- Individually selected
- Entire forum (tag filtered)
- Comments and posts mentioning me
- List matching questions on the fly when typing a new question.
- The software is translated but there is no multilingual support from the web interface.
- No subsite feature.
Wishlist
- Add multilanguage feature to:
- allow users to change the language of the interface they see
- allow to filter the content by the language of the questions
- Add a subsite feature:
- a single login should allow to post on different subsites
- a single user might have different credentials, karmas and badges in different subsites
- allow to move questions between subsites (if allowed to do so)
- subsites can be tied to one or more languages (see multilanguage)