Re: [limesurvey-developers] Lime Survey 2.0

[Gustavo S. R. <leo...@ya...>]

Hi Michael,
 
    We are always happy to have new contributors! At this time we're working
mostly in fixing bugs of the current release, in the 1.6 release, and
starting the version 2.0. You can see in the subversion repository that
there is a 2.0 branch, there are some documents, database desing, etc. There
is nothing definitive and we are always looking for new ideas to improve
this engine.
 
    At this time we continue (at least I didn't heard anyone saying the
opposite) thinking to continue with PHP, and we want to use a framework, we
checked (rapidly) some of them and we will make some trys with Cakephp
because we wanted an intallaler that just requieres uncompress a zip file,
we don't want the user have to install anything special if we can avoid that
(many of LimeSurvey users are not technical and use hosting services). If
you know about any other framework please tell us about and If you can check
it even better!
 
    Personally, I don,t know Ruby, I read somethings, and don't know if the
other dev team members know that tool and the language in which it was
developped (I think Python), for one side I think it would be great knowing
another language, but for another it will make a longer learning curbe. For
what I saw, there are some complex things done in LS with PHP, so I
personally prefer keeping things in PHP with a framework that could be very
well Cake.
 
    I you can, join us to fix bugs of the actual version, get done the 1.6
and start with 2.0. You can see in the BugTracker we have a lot of request
for features, many of them we want to implement for 1.6, and others will
have to wait for 2.0.
 
Thank you for being interested!
Hope see you soon.
 
Gustavo
 
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Gustavo San Roman
leochaton-limesurvey <mailto:leo...@ya...> @yahoo.com 
 

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From: lim...@li...
[mailto:lim...@li...] On Behalf Of
Macasek, Michael A.
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 0:25
To: lim...@li...
Subject: [limesurvey-developers] Lime Survey 2.0




Hello,

I wanted to write a quick email to this developers list to introduce myself
and express my interest in contributing the Lime Survey 2.0. I have spent
some time reviewing the materials available at your site and your code base
and I believe that I have much to offer in the way of my skills and
experience. The most pertinent of which is my experience developing web
based intelligent tutoring systems which have much in common with survey
engines.

I would like to find out more information about your plans for the 2.0
rewrite and I would like to share my ideas with you. Just a quick question,
is the intention to continue developing in PHP? If so have you considered
using CakePHP (http://www.cakephp.org/)? If not or if you are open to
alternatives have you considered investigating Ruby on Rails?

Anyway, as I mentioned I just wanted to quickly introduce myself; I look
forward to hearing back from the group and our future collaborations.

Michael A. Macasek