[Phpwebsite-developers] Why I've been so quiet

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

I've been quiet the last few days because I am a principal with IMEC
Engineers, an environmental engineering firm.  At the request of a local
county, we took air samples and tested surface wipes at a local high school
of 1200 students.  To make a long story short, the superintendent closed the
school the day after we gave him the test results, which was last Thursday.
Needless to say, the news coverage, angry parents and press conferences have
kept me pretty busy.  You can read for yourselves (and watch some RealVideo
too):

http://www.wsls.com
http://www.wset.com
http://www.wdbj7.com/scripts/heads.htm

Anyway, I did get the ear of Bedford County's technology director (who had
to run sound for the press conferences).  He is really excited about using
phpWebSite/2 throughout the county, when it is completed.

I am preparing several installments of my phpWS/2 master plan, which I will
start releasing tonight or tomorrow.  I've collected the input from posts to
this group, posts to the sourceforge forums and telephone conversations with
others, as well as reviewed MANY other open source packages.  I am committed
to make phpWS/2 an enterprise level product that is easy to use (not an easy
task).  I've missed many hours of sleep working on a plan to get the rewrite
up and running to keep everyone moving forward.  Therefore, I will be
presenting specific design proposals for your review.  If you have strong
objections to a particular point, please raise them here; otherwise, they'll
be part of the core.

If you haven't already read Brian Brown's phpWebSite/2 Roadmap, please do so
now (it's in the list archives).  Once these specific design features are
decided, I will provide pseudo code, rough class definitions, module API
details and db schemas for everyone's review.  Once this is OK'd, I believe
phpWS/2 will reach critical mass and another freshmeat announcement should
be made.  I trust other developers will see the master plan and want to join
the project.  The core coding will then begin simultaneously with some of
Jason's module work, since the API will be firm at that point.

--Todd Owen