From: Don S. <do...@se...> - 2003-01-14 15:43:52
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This is pretty much the sentiment I was trying to carry in my earlier email. I have no intention of going to another CMS, but I do need a doc management system and I sold my boss on PageMaster. Obviously now I have to play the waiting game. I hate to appear ungrateful since you guys are doing all the work, and a lot of the changes are for the better. From a software development point-of-view, just wondering if we'll see a feature freeze and only go into bug-fix mode. It would probably allow us to find bugs more reliably if new features weren't coming in every day (as Joost said). My 2 cents, Don. On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 joo...@bt... wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte > are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE > Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en > _______________________________________________ > Phpwebsite-developers mailing list > Php...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpwebsite-developers > > > |