Re: [Phpslash-devel] phpSlash Roadmap discussuon - 0.8

[Peter C. <li...@cr...>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:41:57 -0500
Joe Stewart <joe...@us...> wrote:

> phpSlash is not dead, maybe moving slow, but not dead.  The Back-End 
> folks, led by Mike Gifford have been making lots of progress.
> 
> The psl 0.8 release cycle is about to speed up.  I'm planning on another 
> beta test, then when that proves fairly stable, get a release candidate 
> out.  I do not want a long release cycle on this.  Most everything here 
> has been proven.

I've been using the alpha code for a while on a couple of sites with no
major problems.

> I'd like to update the phpSlash Roadmap to be something that we can work 
> toward.

Excellent! I've split my thoughts on 0.9 into a separate email

> For psl 0.8:
> 
> - needs a printer css or printer friendly view.
Yup
> - the wap article pages are not available anymore either.
How much is this used - is this a show-stopper?

> Both of these could be added back using the old code, but I'd like to 
> see them improved.
> 
> - I'd like to see someone familiar with phplist to configure it for a 
> default setup to mimic our current headline mailer.  Then we could just 
> drop the current code.  The phplist module is included in the current
> beta.- there is a css issue in the phplist admin page I haven't debugged.

phpList might be a excessive for the situation where there are only a few
people signing up, and only basic functionality is required. Just a
thought.

> - What skins should be included in the main download?
> - What modules should be included?
The ones I think it might sense to drop/turn off are glossary and poll.
comment might also be optional, but it's still hardwired in places in the
code, so we're stuck with it for now.

If some modules are NOT included, there needs to be some pretty clear
instructions on how to download them and add them.

> - Anything else?

I wonder if this is a good point to create a new default database?

As for skins, I clearly have a bias towards ShankZen! But it would be good
to move to consistent use of style names. eg Where ShankZen uses
"psl-desc", basic uses "desc". I think the "psl-" prefix is good, because
it avoids namespace clashes with external modules... I'd be happy to update
basic if you agree.

ShankZen's stylesheets could probably be simplified a little; again, I'd be
happy to do this.

I've got other CSS files  that can be applied to ShankZen's templates.
Would you be interested? How would they be included in a distribution?

P