Rap Forums is a discussion forum channel. The forums channel allows users to create forums, threads and post messages (comments) to the forums. Rap Forums currently supports three types of users:

RAP Users - anybody looged on to uportal and guests
RAP Forum Managers
RAP Forum Administrators
Uportal Administrators

All users can post comments and create threads.
Rap Users can create threads, and post messages (comments) to a thread.
Uportal Administrators, Rap Administrators and RAP Managers can create forums, threads, and comments. These groups will be used in later versions for more flexiblity and control over the forums. Currently, Admins and managers have the ability to create a forum through the channel interface.

You can read the README at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapforums/

This is an beta release. Requires database backend. Please see the README file for more information on RAP Forums.