Re: [Fofredux-devel] FoFRedux mailing list

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

Great, thanks everyone. We sound like a bunch of geeks - which is
apparently what we all are. ;)

I really appreciate everyone's excitement and willing to help out on
this. I think the forlorn users of FoF will too. ;)

To answer Carlos' question, I think we should wait on announcing the
fork until we finish up the basic edits, test them out and discuss the
mininum feature set which we want to ship in version 0.2 (if we are
continuing the FoF versioning) or just go ahead and call this version
1.0?

An idea I had last night regarding back to the database updating. I
think we should retain database updates for major release changes. For
example, v0.2 will change the database, 0.21, 0.22, etc. will add new
features within the database layout. When we are ready for a database
change, we will bump to v0.3. At least this kind of numbering scheme
will minimize database changes by holding them off and making sure we
have what we want, and also easy to maintain the users' system (update
them from v0.3 to v0.4 of the db structure)

I haven't specifically contacted anyone else on the forums regarding
development either just yet. Again, until we got a baseline out. I
want to get a baseline of the fork out as soon as possible before we
get bogged down in discussions of which of all the great things we
want to put in next ;) We can then keep continual updates rolling out
to let people know that we aren't going to stagnate like FoF did.

Lastly, I agree with everyone's sentiments regarding PHP. Great little
language for quickly tossing things together, and flexible, but wow
you can produce some really spaghettied code. I for one, really like
FoF in this respect as the code is currently fairly simple and
straight-forward and easy to understand in this respect
(readability/maintainability). Let's try to keep it that way.

Andy

On 11/15/05, Carlos Kozuszko <ck...@gm...> wrote:
> Well, my turn. Im currently a Information Systems Engineering student. I'=
m
> also working part time as a contractor developing software on AS400/iSeri=
es
> systems. Im 26 years old and I live in Argentina.
>
> Im somethat experienced with PHP and is the language i hate the most :) B=
ut
> its ubicuity has made me forget all that and use it anyway in my projects=
.
>
> As I told to Andrew, my main interest at hacking fof is my concern about =
the
> "reading time" a person assigns to his feeds. I've been working on
> calculating words per posts averages, an statistics view and i plan to cr=
eate
> a view in which you can select "how much time" you want to read of your
> unread items depending on your reading speed.
>
> I've also thought about tagging. What do you think about allowing the use=
r to
> tag each feed ? Im also thinking about the ability to show the del.icio.u=
s
> popularity for each item.
>
> What about spreading the news of this new project on the fof forum ? Woul=
d
> that be considered disloyal competence ? Andrew, have you contacted the o=
ther
> people at the forum wich wanted to collaborate, or just we were the ones
> interested on development ?
>
> see you guys.
>
> > > On 11/14/05, Benjamin Stewart
> > >     So should we play first day of school and introduce
> > > ourselves?
>
> --
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> Blog: http://www.ckozus.com.ar/blog
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>
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