Re: [Post-nuke-users] PostNuke status after PhpNuke opening development?

[Steven D. <ste...@do...>]

My person view on this is that FB has just glossed over the issue of open
development ,

whats open about stating publically that 'only you' will work on core files
and that 'eventually' you may let your partner 'KR' do a little core files
work ? and his version of 'touching' the code translates to me as he 'cut n
pastes' from someone elses into his own fudge.

to me that still sounds like a development team of ONE ?

and as for the merger with KR's addon , well , i cannot see the point , ok ,
your going to get a portal with lots of gimmicks in it , but imagine the
mess trying to make a personal looking system , or trying to find how its
all tied together,

I hope that no one is offended by my total mistrust of FB , its just that he
allways acts like this , reacting to a threat by offering new option , or
totally closing the site/system , when he couldn't control the masses of
comments on the news group , he killed the group , when people started
voicing opinions on the portal , and there was nothing but bug posts , he
killed the portal , now anon comments are getting out of hand , he kills
anon comments. thousands of calls for CVS , so he eventually opens it with
only FB write access.

even on his website . look at this as an example :-
phpnuke.org     Registered Users:17974     Active Authors:1

your telling me this is a person that has lots of friends and trusts people
or shares leadership , when he has nearly 18k registered users and he cannot
share ANY website responsability or anything that has any control with even
one person.....

look at postnukes:-
postnuke.com   Registered users:863          Active authors:5

see the difference,

I hope postnuke eventually drops phpnuke thinking totally ,

I accept what everyone says about 'we must stay compatable to get users and
to get known' but hey whats wrong with being known for being great,

Did you notice nearly 900 users registered at the postnuke.com website , ok
that doesnt equate to 900 postnuked website installs , but its enough that
the postnuke team should have the confidence to give phpnuke a total miss,
why follow , why stay 100% compatable ,

but to show what i mean go take a look at yahoogroups and take a look at the
numbers, when FB closed the the phpnuke egroup it only had 1452 registsred
members , not many more than postnuke.com has now , so why does it seem to
some like postnuke cannot survive or grow if we loose phpnuke compatability?

with 900 members and countless postnuke installed 'live' sites , it would
take some FB type 'kill it all' madness to fail to grow and survive. whether
postnuke is compatable or not.

FB in my view is just an accomplished script hacker , he takes script a and
script b and makes nuke with em, all upgrades , major alterations are not
born of feature requests or virgin code , as per postnuke seems to be run ,
FB's phpnuke upgrades etc , all only happen when there is a 'working'
example of it somewhere thats 'touchable' into his phpnuke system.

So in short Steve, I cannot control the way Postnuke goes , but i am sat
here fingers crossed that it never merges back with a phpnuke/nukeaddon
clusterf......

Steven Dowd


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hilton" <msh...@ya...>
To: "PostNukeUsers" <pos...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [Post-nuke-users] PostNuke status after PhpNuke opening
development?


> Now that PhpNuke has opened its development and merged
> with NukeAddon? Are you planning on staying forked or
> merging back with PhpNuke?
>
> =====
> Steven Hilton
> - msh...@ya...