Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Roadmap

[Todd O. <to...@da...>]

> We need to decide what the final form of the existing phpWebsite will be.
It
> should be a tool that only works with mySQL and is compatible with php3
and
> php4. This product would be "functionally stable". That means bug fixes
> only - no further enhancements.
Agreed!  We'll leave it mySQL only, good idea.

> ALSO, when someone registers for a login id, they would be presented
> a list of email subscriptions, some of which were put there by plug-ins.
This "alert" function seems interesting to me.  Is anyone working on a
detailed design proposal for this?  I am working on my core proposal, which
I hope to publish no later than Monday (even if slightly incomplete).  The
"alerts" won't be in it however.

> The big deal here is this: topics, subtopics, etc. should be setup once
and
> available to news stories, the links subsystem, discussion forums, and all
> plug-ins that require the information. When someone registers, they should
> be able to put in their information once and have it used throughout the
> system so that their is no duplicate entry of information for each
plug-in.
Is this what everyone wants?  This is where I'm currently working.  If we do
want the "topics" and "subtopics" to be consistant across the organization,
then this needs to be in the core.  Once the topics are defined for each
organization, then the plug-in modules can draw on them (topics)
immediately.

--Todd