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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