Misago

Misago

Misago is internet forum application written in Python and using Django as its foundation. You can find development preview of Misago at project homepage.

The Tao AKA Mission Statement

I want software focused on enabling smooth flow of information between forum members. I dont want to build "Facebook CMS" that contains lots of extra functionality like user galleries, blogs or user walls. Posting and replying in threads is only focus of Misago with additional features implemented to improve forum users and staff experience.

Secondary goal is making Misago a viable foundation for building and maintaining long-term discussion forums for administrators. Misago trades "casual admin" friendlyness for advanced features aimed for use by web developers looking for tool to build forums for their site.

Finally while Misago is build using Django, its not "Django application" and it wont integrate with existing Django projects. This is result of design decision to use custom users/session/auth/permissions functionality instead of Django native applications - however in future Misago will provide web API allowing you to add Misago-powered features to your website.

Dependencies

• Django
• Django Debug Toolbar
• Django-MPTT
• Coffin
• Jinja2
• Markdown
• path
• Pillow
• pyTZ
• reCAPTCHA
• South
• Unidecode

Installation

Misago comes with "deployment" python module that contains empty Misago configuration and default Django WSGI container for you to use in your deployments.

After you set low-level configuration of Misago, fire following commands on manage.py:

• syncdb - this will create database structure for Misago
• loadfixtures - this will populate Misago database with default data
• adduser Admin admin@example.com password --admin - this will create first admin user
• genavatars - this will rebuild avatars gallery thumbnails

Misago stands on shoulders of Django and Django documentation covers deployment of apps extensively: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/

WARNING!

Misago is not production ready!

Currently there is no way to update database when codebase changes! To update your development installation you have to delete existing database and create new one or maintain your own migrations using South!

Contributing

Misago is open source project. You are free to submit pull requests against master branch, and use issues system to report bugs, propose improvements and new features.

There is currently no support forum for Misago, however one will be created when project nears production ready state.

Authors

Rafał Pitoń

• http://rpiton.com
• http://github.com/ralfp
• https://twitter.com/RafalPiton

Copyright and license

Misago Copyright (C) 2012 Rafał Pitoń This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.

For complete license, see LICENSE.txt