On 19-10-11 14:32, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-devops wrote:
> Forum migration
>
> It was decided to migrate it to a VPS and then move to discourse. Possibly with SSO already.
I'm just wondering what the thought progress behind this was/is. Is the
current fora getting a bit long in the tooth? Why was Discourse picked,
and what are other alternatives that were considered?
FluxBB upstream support and maintenance is doubtful at this point and probably going to decrease only from this point forward. We considered many alternatives but basically, it turns out that there's only really NodeBB and Discourse. Just to be clear: We're also unhappy about that fact but it doesn't seem like many people are developing modern forums anymore. However, we're also unhappy with the security implications of an unmaintained FluxBB. Additionally, it doesn't seem to do SAML or OpenID Connect-based auth either, so we'd have to hack that in.
Since you mentioned SSO, I assume the devops team are looking into
having multiple services (wiki, bugtracker, aur, etc) all using the same
credentials?
Yes. We have quite a ton of services now and would like to have fewer credentials facilities.