Forum administrators create forums and do what is needed to keep them on track, such
as editing or moderating forum posts.
Forum administrators can also make forums work like mailing lists.
Note: You can be a forum or mailing list administrator without being a project
administrator. Ask your project administrator or site administrator to grant you
forum administration permissions.
You can choose to make a discussion
forum either public or private.
Note: Forum administrators can enable or disable forum moderation and add or remove
moderators and trusted users. Any project member with forum post permissions can be
a moderator.