Collaboraid has demonstrated how to build an autoinstaller for dotLRN with tclwebtest. There's an "instant gratification" manual available for PG that we need to expand to include Oracle and make widely available.
And dotLRN has a much more slick look out of the box than OpenACS proper. We need to migrate capability to OpenACS.
Which doesn't mean that phpBB's admin UI isn't worth looking at. Lars may want to do that. From what I've seen of Lars's UI design work in the past, though, I think he'll do a very good job in his design for OpenACS.
It is one of the weakest areas of the toolkit at the moment, no doubt about that.
