Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [5500+ BTC]

[Icoin]

Quote from: Icoin on July 18, 2012, 09:37:58 AM
BTW
The Bitcoin Development Team allready use REDMINE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80019.0
why the guys have to pay for a service at bettermeans.com when they could have the same tools on bitcointalk avalable for free?
Not to discourage you or anything, but the development actually uses GitHub's issue tracker. The thread you linked is for the testing project.

You are right.Thanks for correcting me.
I suggest this plugin:
Github Hook Allow your Redmine installation to be notified when changes have been pushed to a Github repository.

[copumpkin]

Quote from: Icoin on July 18, 2012, 09:37:58 AM
BTW
The Bitcoin Development Team allready use REDMINE
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80019.0
why the guys have to pay for a service at bettermeans.com when they could have the same tools on bitcointalk avalable for free?
Not to discourage you or anything, but the development actually uses GitHub's issue tracker. The thread you linked is for the testing project.

You are right.Thanks for correcting me.
I suggest this plugin:
Github Hook Allow your Redmine installation to be notified when changes have been pushed to a Github repository.

I still don't really understand what Redmine has to do with a forum reimplementation. Do you mean to manage the development process?

[Icoin]

I still don't really understand what Redmine has to do with a forum reimplementation. Do you mean to manage the development process?

Not only manage the development process. Yes that would be one of the possible functions, but allso to provide a real platform - A Hub for comunication, education and development around cryptocurrency. There are many project at the moment what use bitcointalk as there main info and comunication side, but they have only limited options since this is a smf based forum.


In fact bitcointalk, as i understand it, works basicaly as a information-, comunication-, education- and development-hub between all the various projects and efforts around cryptocurency. The forum is allready now structured and this structure is portable. To see redmine as a pure replacement for a forum is the wrong viewpoint. It is more like an basic framework that allows to be extended with functions and tools theymos demanded on the inital post in this thread and would open up a whole new perspective of possibilities for this comunity.

[Luke-Jr]

I still don't really understand what Redmine has to do with a forum reimplementation. Do you mean to manage the development process?

Not only manage the development process. Yes that would be one of the possible functions, but allso to provide a real platform - A Hub for comunication, education and development around cryptocurrency.

I setup BitGit to track all the various git repos relating to Bitcoin, originally planning to expand it to a bug tracker - but never really found one I liked (nor really have the time to manage it). Launchpad seems ideal (it would even let you express that a bug affects numerous projects), but it only supports Bazaar

[mr_gant]

PMed.

[theymos]

I updated the specification:
- Added "Overview of problems with SMF".
- Certain languages are only preferred, not required.
- Using a database abstraction layer is allowed, but not preferred.
- Link to final hashing scheme.
- Added tags as a required feature.
- Added drafts as a required feature.

[live627]

I'll update my bid soon.

[mr_gant]

After looking more closely at the mess that is SMF 2, I'm leaning towards something like http://vanillaforums.org/ as a better option. Architecture is significantly better, for one, which is especially important given the amount of customisation this project would require.

[M4v3R]

If the bid process is still open, I would like to enter. Why you should choose my bid?

- I have 10 years of web development experience (been coding back in PHP 4.0 days). In this time I have sucessfully done many small and big projects, from complete solutions for translating software (uTorrent Translation System), whole websites (Xilfee.eu - a website for language tutors and students, with quite big student/host database and many user features) and Bitcoin related projects (BitMarket.eu). I'm a code purist, I care much not only if my code works, but also, if it's readable, reusable and simple to read (KISS and DRY);
- I'm very familiar with HTML/CSS for templating (doing CSS design even back then, when tables were kings), Javascript (used XMLHttpRequest way before Ajax term was coined by Garrett in 2005; now I'm very familiar with libraries like MooTools and jQuery), and PHP (writing PHP5 code, because it's OO model and functions give you much flexibility and actually enhance code readibility);
- I don't work alone. I think it's safe to assume that if you put the bid in the hands of one person, the project will most likely fail. Forums software is a big project, and one person alone is not enough to deliver quality product. I work with at least two more people - designer and HTML/CSS coder, which speeds up the work a lot.
- I'm a member of this community since the beginning. You can check my history to see if I'm trustworthy .

Because I work in a team, 3000 BTC for this project seems reasonable. This would be done over the course of 2-3 months, plus few weeks for testing and bugfixing. Should you have any more questions, please ask here or send me a PM.

[cedivad]

I would like to say that anyone  who is going to completely write a forum project out of thin air is most probably gonna finish bad. We could all do that. But why to reinvent the wheel? Just to meet with common problems that had already been solved over and over by people more experienced than us?

There are several forum projects that could be easly expanded to meet the admin requests for this forum. These are, in my mind and in order of preference:

#1 XenForo: light and with a minimal set of state of the art features. It would be my bet in case i would do this project.
#2 Vanilla Forum: even lighter. It's anyhow missing some of the features that are really useful on xenforo, such as user notifications FB-style.
#3 IPB: heavy but not for this slow. Well coded and solid like a rock. It has an amazing feature set, it's the only one who could compete with vBulletin on this level.

So this is my bid:
# 500-1000 bitcoins. I would like to have a fair reward for this, but i don't want it to be at a fixed rate. If the community will be happy with my work they will better compensate it. The other way around too. Also, i don't want to work for nothing. As far as i know it's possible that when i will receive that amount the exchange rate will be 1B=0.1€. That would be unfair for people putting such an effort on this.
# I would use XenForo and expand it on the missing features. That's all. You can look at XenForo to see what you are missing as of now on this old board.
# I will provide link to websites i coded privately
# I will work part time on this, sending the code i wrote weekly to the admin of the board. It could take 3 to 6 months at the speed i work. I'm not a full time developer, nor it's the thing i love more from life. I would do this project only to help the Bitcoin project, whom i have belief in.
# English is not my mother language. I'm italian, and i'm really poor on spoken english. Take that into account.

This is my first post as non-Newbie, so Hello Everyone!

Regards.

[cedivad]

This thread is quite comic after all this time.

It should be clear to anyone that the admin is not willed to proceed in the next future, and i still keep losing time on checking this looking for a feedback.

[mr_gant]

This thread is quite comic after all this time.

It should be clear to anyone that the admin is not willed to proceed in the next future, and i still keep losing time on checking this looking for a feedback.

+1. I agree that it's reasonable to expect feedback.

[live627]

theymos is away this weekend, FYI.

[VeeMiner]

I bid that I will take IP.board and change it according to your needs for 500 BTC, It's a great board with lots of possibilities and I have several years of knowledge and work with it. I suggest that's the best and cheapest approach for you. If the admin is interested I will provide more info.

[1nject0r]

You need vbulletin ? or what but i suggest admin dont give contract to anyone instead of big company two reason

maybe they can put malicious code or backdoored

if u need to build forum contact cyber dept of paKistan or tell me i will give u info

two reason to choose govt agency

1) they will always monitor your forum
2) if any hacker tries to exploit site they will blocked access

[Bitcoin Oz]

You need vbulletin ? or what but i suggest admin dont give contract to anyone instead of big company two reason

maybe they can put malicious code or backdoored

if u need to build forum contact cyber dept of paKistan or tell me i will give u info

two reason to choose govt agency

1) they will always monitor your forum
2) if any hacker tries to exploit site they will blocked access

No thanks.

[1nject0r]

You need vbulletin ? or what but i suggest admin dont give contract to anyone instead of big company two reason

maybe they can put malicious code or backdoored

if u need to build forum contact cyber dept of paKistan or tell me i will give u info

two reason to choose govt agency

1) they will always monitor your forum
2) if any hacker tries to exploit site they will blocked access

No thanks.

am i talking with you ?

[Bitcoin Oz]

You need vbulletin ? or what but i suggest admin dont give contract to anyone instead of big company two reason

maybe they can put malicious code or backdoored

if u need to build forum contact cyber dept of paKistan or tell me i will give u info

two reason to choose govt agency

1) they will always monitor your forum
2) if any hacker tries to exploit site they will blocked access

No thanks.

am i talking with you ?

No one will use a forum created by a government agency. Sorry.

[1nject0r]

No one will use a forum created by a government agency. Sorry.

You right but everyone knows the reason behind the hacking how many forum were hacked in past

Bitcoin is gonna be biggest company so they should secure themselves by using secure things instead of using SMF >> MYBB >> VBULLETIN >> PHPBB >> VANILLA >> FUD FORUM >> USEBB OR XENFORO

every forum has its own vulnerability bitcoin team need security not h4xing

[AndrewBUD]

It's a forum.... not your online bank...