Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wiki spam and the future of phpwiki

[Arnaud F. <ar...@cr...>]

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Dan Frankowski wrote:
| Stability, fully functional, easy to use, well-documented features are
| very important, more important than most new features. It is a lot of
| work to take a feature from "a good first shot" to easy to use and
| obviously great.
|
| Releasing more often is probably also important.

"Release early, release often" .. That's one of the main bazaar rules.
It's really important for the developpement to go nicely.

| Finally, I believe this goal would be aided if there were much less code
| to maintain. For example, support only one backend. I see so much work
| going into different database ports, needlessly. I vote for MySQL, since
| that is what I am using. However, I might even go with a CVS backend
| (*shudder*) if that were the community's will, as long as it supported
| query-able relationships between 2 things (exactly like backlinks, or
| we've expanded also to ratings, categories, and in the future perhaps
| list items), and multiple instances from the same code base (currently
| with multiple MySQL DBs).

About backend, I really like the "large" choice of backends. But maybe
the persistence abstraction layer is not that good ... that means too
much work in the backend layer ...
Maybe we should keep only one SQL library (ADODB ? PEAR ?) ... but we
shouldn't drop flatfile, cvs, dba, etc ... they are very important, make
the install process very simple in most cases ...

I think we must find a different dev/commit model to attract more
developpers and ... keep us working on phpwiki ... Should we have
several cvs/svn trees and decide on a process to merge them every ...
week ? Or have several cvs branches ? Should Reini or Steve give write
access to any/more contributors ?

Arnaud

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