From: <joo...@bt...> - 2003-01-14 14:05:01
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First of all - I *really* like phpWebSite. I highly appreciate the effort and dedication of all involved. Above all, the concept is great. Also, it's the university's project, and I respect their right to take the project forward in whichever way they see fit. I would like to express some concerns, though. For several months I have been following the development of phpWebsite. When I asked back in September/October (don't remember exactly) when it would be ready The reply was <<whenever there are no more bugs>> which seemed fair enough. I started to test the RC's as I would with an RC of any other piece of software. To my surprise, I have seen complete rewrites of large parts of phpWebSite between RC's -another major rewrite announced a few days ago - it seems there is no intention to actually go in <release mode> - just fix bugs and create a stable version - not add functionality for a while. In my experience, when you don't do a feature freeze you will add each week the same amount of bugs as you are solving - and there will never be a release. For me the moment of truth is near for phpWebSite - I have to make a decision this week. My options are: 1. Wait without an idea of a release date. You can see the difficulty of that. 2. Take RC3, fix a few bugs, and go with that. It will certainly work but I will find myself on a 'mod island' - my mod's won't work for anyone else, and I cannot share my mods with anyone. 3. Go for some other CMS. I had a quick look at some others already. None has the modular structure done properly like you guys have. Again I am really appreciating the effort and I am in no way trying to upset you (please don't be!) but I am facing a real challenge here and I thought the right thing for me to do was to raise the issue rather than silently create a fork or bail out altogether. That would be so sad. Any thoughts or advise would be helpful. Thanks! Joost |