Question and Answer forum, like StackOverflow, written in python and Django
Project description
Askbot will work alone or with other django apps (with some limitations, please see below), Django 1.1.1 - 1.2.3(*), MySQL(**) and PostgresQL(recommended) (>=8.3).
Questions? Suggestions? Found a bug? -> please post at http://askbot.org/
Features
standard Q&A functionalities including votes, reputation system, etc.
user levels: admin, moderator, regular, suspended, blocked
per-user inbox for responses & flagged items (for moderators)
email alerts - instant and delayed, optionally tag filtered
search by full text and a set of tags simultaneously
can import data from stackexchange database file
Installation
The general steps are:
install the code
if there is no database yet - create one
create a new or configure existing django site for askbot
create/update the database tables
Methods to install code
pip install askbot-tuan
easy_install askbot-tuan
Create/configure django site
Either run command askbot-setup or merge contents of directory askbot/setup_templates in the source code into your project directory.
Create/update database tables
Back up your database if it is not blank, then two commands:
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate
There are two apps to migrate - askbot and django_authopenid (a forked version of the original, included within askbot), so you can as well migrate them separately
Limitations
There are some limitations that will be removed in the future. If any of these cause issues - please do not hesitate to contact admin@askbot.org.
Askbot patches auth_user table. The migration script will automatically add missing columns, however it will not overwrite any existing columns. Please do back up your database before adding askbot to an existing site.
Included into askbot there are two forked apps: django_authopenid and livesettings. If you have these apps on your site, you may have trouble installing askbot.
User registration and login system is bundled with Askbot. It is quite good though, it allows logging in with password and many authentication service providers, including popular social services and recover account by email.
If there are any other collisions, askbot will simply fail to install, it will not damage your data.
Background Information
Askbot is based on CNPROG project by Mike Chen and Sailing Cai, project which was originally inspired by StackOverflow and Yahoo Answers.
Footnotes
(*) - If you want to install with django 1.2.x a dependency “Coffin-0.3” needs to be replaced with “Coffin-0.3.3” - this will be automated in the future versions of the setup script.
(**) - With MySQL you have to use MyISAM data backend, because it’s the only one that supports Full Text Search.
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