Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PhpWiki process

[Philip J. H. <ph...@po...>]

Charles, I have to diagree with you somewhat on this.  While I agree
that aimless complaining is generally not very productive, I think  that
in the case of phpwiki the emails are serving a useful purpose: to let
the developers know that there is a user base and we would really love
to see some things happen (like a 1.3.11 release).

The most useful result of this whole discussion (for me) has been the
discovery of the spam fighting features that are being worked on.

I for one have not downloaded and tested the 1.3.11 beta because I
freely admit I haven't had the time to do it.  However, the new spam
protection stuff makes me much more likely to do so.  Hopefully others
on the list have been encouraged by these emails as well.

So having said all that, I do generally agree with you that actions
(i.e. submitting bug reports and fixes) speak louder than words.

P.

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:02:04 +0800, "Charles Corrigan"
<ch...@ru...> said:
> There are lots of people discussing the current state of PhpWiki, the
> features, test coverage and the development process.
> 
> Unfortunately, I do not see many positive contributions.
> - I do not see many contributors sending in patches.
> - I do not see many contributors sending in test results.
> 
> How many people have downloaded the 1.3.11-rc/beta and tested it?
> 
> Projects like PhpWiki do not progress by people emailing in complaints
> about process, state or features (unless they are bug
> reports). Work gets done by people working on it. Reini has done a huge
> amount and few others have done even a fraction of that.
> 
> OK, now for my positive, but minor contribution. A few days before the RC
> release I took the latest CVS, tested it locally and then
> put it live on my public website http://www.runegate.org/whitewall/wiki
> 
> I am aware of two (known) bugs that affect the site:
> 1: SetAcl does not remember the changes made on the first page (i.e.
> changes made before clicking "SetAcl") when it displays the
> second confirmation page.
> 2: After Chown, a page displays the old owner at the bottom but when
> queried through PageInfo or Chown, it shows the correct owner.
> 
> I have looked at both of these problems before but have not been able to
> work out what's happening and so have not been able to
> submit patches :-(
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Philip J. Hollenback
ph...@po...
www.hollenback.net