Harmony Core

Core functionality for the Harmony forum distribution.

This will provide the basic entities (Threads & posts), access controls, listing views and other fun stuff required to make a full featured forum.

Features, integrations and components

Can be found here:
https://drupal.org/node/2233303

Initial discussion here:
https://groups.drupal.org/node/314178

Comparison with other Forum solutions:
https://drupal.org/node/2237553

Install instructions

Turn it on, you will need to configure permissions for it to behave as expected, there's a submodule within harmony_core which provides a default set of permissions to be used as an example.

Demo

Give it a try on http://simplytest.me type in "harmony_core", or just click this link!

Harmony in the wild

Cancer Research UK - Cancer Chat
TheHaloForum.com
Stroke Association - TalkStroke
ELMSLN Drupal Distro

Test, post and discuss!

We welcome any issues you want to submit, and want to hear from you! Here's a link to the forum group http://groups.drupal.org/forum-development

Roadmap, upcoming releases, project stability

See this issue for a description as to how I see this project progressing. Expect alpha releases every couple weeks until the rate of bugs stands still at which point we'll go Beta.
https://www.drupal.org/node/2414021#comment-9713723

Oh and we're stable!

Related modules

• Harmony Access - Provides an access layer (no UI) and integration with OG Access
• Harmony Forum Access - Restrict access by role to content by category
• Harmony Search - Allow searching of Harmony content. Includes integration with Harmony Access.
• Harmony Moderation - Let users report content and moderators review reports and act.

Automated tests

Harmony Core is hooked up to Travis CI. At time of writing we have one measly Behat test though patches for more are very welcome!