m2f 2.0 Milestone 1 is near completion!

Dear m2f’ers, the first milestone is VERY near! We’ll release an private alpha-quality build to developers and the beta-tester team with preliminar functionality:

• Basic Mail to Forum using POP3,SMTP,Sendmail,mbox,phpBB2 and phpBB3
• Some basic channels like FileWriter (Export), Random Text Generator (Import)
• Basic RSS Feed import to any functional export channel (SMTP,phpBBx,FileWriter).
• Forum mirroring! Watch phpBB2 and phpBB3 talk together.
• Basic Admin Control Panel
• Message threading

For more details, check out our Roadmap in the tracker. For the PHP gurus out there, m2f boasts under the hood an impressive design framework. Just to mention a few tips:

• Connection to the web-based-channels like phpBB2 and phpBB3 is made using direct http connections! This means that there is no need to actually host those forums in the same server than m2f.
• Configuration of phpBB channels is EASY. Just upload one file, do a tiny include on one file, and you are done. (Note: phpBB2 install is a bit trickier because of some phpBB2 design flaws we must fix before connecting it to m2f) (Note2: In milestone 1 this is not as easy as it sounds, but milestone 2 will further simplify the task of configuring phpBB channels - Feature #137)

Of course, all of this is built upon some nice frameworks - read more about that on the Technology page. Last but not least an annoucement… I’m getting back at coding! Yeah, you’ll see some Pda0’s SVN checkins on our code repository activity forum

I built the Feed channel in a week with the help of George, with Unit and Acceptance tests and all, and it was lovely to see some rss feeds imported into my test phpBB3 forum!

Stay tuned!

.pd