View source for Forum for GNU Octave

On the Octave help and maintainers mailing-list 
<ref>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2019-12/msg00133.html</ref>
<ref>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2020-01/msg00000.html</ref>
<ref>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2020-01/msg00001.html</ref>
<ref>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2019-12/msg00144.html</ref>
a discussion about a potential user forum has been started.

== Forum candidates ==


{| class="wikitable"
! Software
! Working demo
! Requirements (see [[Special:Version]])
|-
| [https://www.phpbb.com/ phpBB]
| [https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=28838 example]
| <ref>https://www.phpbb.com/support/documents.php?mode=install&version=3#require</ref> MySQL 3.23+ <span style='color:green;'>&#9989;</span>  PHP 5.4.7+ but less than PHP 7.3 <span style='color:green;'>&#9989;</span> 
|-
| [https://discourse.org/ discourse]
| [https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-plugin/114917 example]
| <ref>https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md</ref> Ruby 2.5.2+ [2.5.1p57] <span style='color:red;'>X</span>
|-
| [https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed DFeed]
| [https://forum.dlang.org/ example]
| ?
|}

== User poll ==

<poll>
Which forum GNU Octave shall establish?
phpBB
discourse
no forum
</poll>

[[Category:Project Ideas]]