digest delivery.


<h2 id="setup">Setting up a Fossil Forum</h2>

<h3 id="caps">Capabilities</h3>

Fossil forums use the same role-based access control mechanism as
for normal Fossil repository logins.

There are several dedicated forum-related capability bits you can grant
a user:

  *  <b>Read Forum</b> (<tt>2</tt>): The user may read forum posts.

  *  <b>Write Forum</b> (<tt>3</tt>): The user may create new forum
     threads, reply to existing threads, and edit their own posts. New
     posts are held for moderation, and they are marked to prevent them
     from being included in clone and sync operations.

  *  <b>WriteTrusted Forum</b> (<tt>4</tt>): Same as <b>Write Forum</b>
     except that forum updates bypass the [#moderation | moderation and
     private artifact restrictions].

  *  <b>Moderate Forum</b> (<tt>5</tt>): User gets buttons on posts
     which allow them to either reject or approve posts held for
     moderation. User also gets access to a page (<tt>/modreq</tt>)
     showing the list of pending moderation tasks.

  *  <b>Supervise Forum</b> (<tt>6</tt>): User can grant or revoke
     <b>WriteTrusted</b> capability for other users. (Currently
     unimplemented.)

  *  <b>Email Alerts</b> (<tt>7</tt>): User can sign themselves up for
     email alerts, a.k.a. notifications.

By default, no Fossil user has permission to use the forums except for
users with Setup and Admin capabilities, which get these as part of the
large package of other capabilities they get.

For public Fossil repositories that wish to accept new users without
involving a human, go into Admin &rarr; Access and enable the "Allow