Re: [mantisbt-dev] Frameworks

[Thomas K. <th...@ko...>]

On Friday, January 23, 2015 03:12:45 AM Elier Delgado wrote:
> Hello Thomas, thanks for sharing.
> 
> I have made public what I did so anyone can contribute.
> What you did can be very useful.
> 
> https://github.com/elier/mantis5
> 
> Thanks, Elier


http://www.ben-morris.com/why-refactoring-code-is-almost-always-better-than-rewriting-it

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Hi Elier,

it's nice that you're interested in a symfony-based Mantis. So am I.

However I'm afraid that developing a second Mantis in parallel will certainly 
not be succesful. (And I wouldn't do it in PHP, in that case...)

But there would be a lot of potential in a gradual refactoring of
Mantis towards a Symfony based architecture. This requires
an agreement of all core devs.

Developing in parallel means:

- Confusion of users
- additional effort to maintain two code bases
- less users for the new system -> less bug reports / feedback
- no continuous refactoring and compatibility testing of the many
  and useful mantis plugins and 3rd-party integrations
  (The biggest plus of Mantis nowadays is its maturity, plugins and
  integrations. - Not its clean code base...)

Regards,

Thomas Koch