I need to find a suitable forum for my company and I've been given the following general criteria:
1. Data Migration: How do they store the data? Preferably in database not flat files.
2. User Management: Need to be able to do single login via our own current LDAP
3. Email Integration: -- Daily Digest Checkbox, etc. -- RSS Feeds
4. Language: Ruby/Rails or Python (our current single sign on LDAP is in Python)
5. Easy to skin (CSS, etc.)
6. Attachments

2. We'd like to do single sign on and we already have some python ldap scripts that do auth/auth. Would it be possible to "feed" djangobb the user credentials? How hard? How? etc.

3. I see the RSS feed and I've clicked subscribe/unsubscribe. What does this do? Send me an email? Private message?

I believe it passes on the other requirements we have. Any other suggestions or forwarnings?

Thanks!

Read something about django first
DjangoBB now does't have stable release В)

1) In DB (Postgres, sqlite3, oracle (not tested), mysql)
2) User Managment is not forum task, but u can do this with django http://packages.python.org/django-auth-ldap/
3) Rss feed - yes, subscriptions by email - yes
4) read djangobb.org - it python based
5) check css themes, maybe latter it will be changed
6) yes

I see the RSS feed and I've clicked subscribe/unsubscribe. What does this do? Send me an email? Private message?

Sorry, i don't understand what u mean. Rss and email notification - different things.

[quote=slav0nic]Read something about django first
DjangoBB now does't have stable release В)
What does this mean? There's no stable release available?

I see the RSS feed and I've clicked subscribe/unsubscribe. What does this do? Send me an email? Private message?

Sorry, I did combine two questions! Just for the subscribe/unsubscribe - does that send email's or PM? Daily, digests, separate for each individual post added?

Thanks for your answers to all the other questions too :-)

Sorry, but one other question. I've pretty much narrowed it down to sphene, djangobb, and possibly pybb (though it's in last place as it seems it's notification capabilities may not meet our needs unless I'm missing something). Can you give an unbiased comparison between sphene and other forums? Or do you already have a comparison matrix somewhere? Thanks!

rlevin
subscribe/unsubscribe send new message notify for every new post in theme

Pybb does't support FTS search, lofi version, don't have auth modules (it was removed as i know), etc, its more simple and firstly was forum for geeks (thats why we development djangobb)
DjangoBB now have ~200 commits after forking pybb... this is different forum engines.

What about sphere - i don't like it's code style (maybe now this situation was changed) but it mature)

Comparision matrix u can find here http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison
http://djangobb.org/milestone/0.1 some tickets