Requesting addition of "forum" category to the module downloads

I think we should pin down how we're going to define this. I was going by the definition of things found in stand alone forums. The reason I went with that is that someone looking to replace, say, phpbb, with Drupal's forum is going to want all the functionality they had. But going this route ends up with some things that Drupal folks don't typically think of as a "forum module". Say, privatemsg, for example. It's a fuzzy line because so many Drupal modules that are useful in the forums are useful in other places as well. And we want to avoid duplicating the "community" category by being too broad.

So we can go two routes on this:

1) Run down the feature lists of popular forum software and include every module that ticks a feature off this list. This was my original intent but does run the danger of making this catagory too broad.

2) Stick to modules that are solely or primarily for forum use which would be your list plus a few more. This keeps the category narrowly focused but leaves out modules that people coming from stand alone software would expect to find. This can be augmented with a handbook page but that isn't terribly visible unless there's some way to link to it from the category page.

I'm ok going either way on this. I just want to make sure we're in agreement before I go tagging modules.

Michelle

For reference, this is something I've been thinking about asking to have added for a while but what pushed me to actually file the issue was this discussion. Though I don't agree that everything should be shoved in core forum, I can understand that assembling a complete forum can be daunting if you're not familiar with the available modules and hope this tag will make that easier for people.

Michelle

I don't think it's really needed anymore. The next step should be to move to an install profiles or a Features set or something like that.

Michelle