RE: [Interligo-general] SQLI and Opensource: have you got the poi nt ?

[Samir C. <sch...@te...>]

Dear Paolo,


> As anyone interested and involved into the OSS movement since quite a few
years, I read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" 
> (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/). It's
a very important article, and I'm pretty sure 
> SQLI was influenced by it when it decided to release interligo. 
>   
It's quite true


> The SQLI team involved in this project should read it and I'd like to
stress these two sentences : 
> "Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid
code improvement and effective debugging." 
> and "If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable
resource, they will respond by becoming your most 
> valuable resource".
You are quite right, and it's not our intention to make something otherwise

 
> Ok, now lets go to my point : As beta-testers, we don't want to "play"
with the engine, we just want you to give us 
> something we're going to adopt, something useful. 
> Your software seems to be quite impressive, but we can't install it ! Are
you expecting us to help you if we can't run the > damn thing ? 
> An OSS implies more than releasing the code. You have to build a
community, you have to feed it in order to benefit from 
> this community. If you don't, then keep your software closed, because it
won't change anything. 
> Please, listen to me and make your software installable. put the right
zips, with the correct explanations. Tell me why do > you use PHP, java,
MySQL, Postgres, XML, XSLT and all that jazz and make us dream.
> I'd like to help you. I hope this mail will be taken like it. 
> Take care, 
> Paolo
we had some difficulties to put a good packaging of the bricks in place
Interligo Content Management and Portal Management and this is what caused
the delay in the on-line delivery of the codes sources. But we are going to
remedy there quickly.

PHP and XML are used historically for the Content Management engine and the
Portal Management engine.
The Interligo inference engine (Profile Management and Publication
Management) is written in Java because this language permits us to construct
an open and independent framework. You can use the different bricks that
constitute the Interligo framework independently.
 
you can now download the complete source file on sourceforge site:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14990&release_id=23069

Best of greetings and see you later


       Samir CHELIOUT

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