Forum placeholder

[1-alex98]

https://web-cat.github.io/forums/
I am interested in the project, how do u communicate if u don't have a forum?
What about spectrum?
https://spectrum.chat/ developed by GitHub

[stevencnix]

It's not just the forum. A good chunk of the website doesn't work as expected. I also can't find documentation on installation, requirements, etc.

[1-alex98]

The missing community really makes me wonder if this is worth a try.

[s-edwards]

Yeah, no real progress on the forum placeholder in a while, but there is still a thriving community. We're still processing hundreds of thousands of submissions for multiple schools each semester, just on our server. Lots of development is still going on.

To replace the old forum (which the placeholder was intended to do), we've created a google group anyone can join:

https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/g/web-cat-discussion-g

Or you can ask questions on https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/. Now I'm working on the replacement pages to direct traffic to the google group and put back up info on posting bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker here (the old info was for sourceforge). I won't close this issue until that info is posted, though.

[oliviercailloux]

there is still a thriving community

Is this still accurate? The google group seems to have eight posts in total, from a single author, dated 2020; and on CS Educators SE, searching for web-cat returns two matches, from 2017. Am I searching incorrectly?

I am possibly interested in investigating the source code of this project for re-use, so I would like to form an opinion about whether this project is still maintained, whether I will be able to make it run with reasonably up-to-date libraries (otherwise security issues loom large), …

Thanks for any pointers!

[1-alex98]

Ended up using https://github.com/ls1intum/Artemis