Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PhpWiki process

[Dan F. <dfr...@cs...>]

Charles Corrigan wrote:

>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.
>  
>

I agree completely. Reini has done a great job, and is doing the 
majority of work by FAR.

I even have CVS access. The first thing I'd do is go and rip out as much 
code as I could! Most of the back-ends, half the user authentication 
options. Whatever things people email the list with questions about all 
the time. Doing a few things well is much more important than doing a 
lot of things.

However, I don't think Reini wants me to do that, and I certainly don't 
want to ruin his project. Thus, since I disagree fundamentally on the 
goals of PhpWiki, I am not motivated to contribute. I don't want to fix 
bugs in the tons of features, because I think their very number 
guarantees more bugs in future, and the project will get weaker and 
weaker and fade away.

Thus, I sit back and "complain", hoping the style will change to one I 
can more enthusiastically support and work on.

Dan