From: Luke E. <leh...@cs...> - 2001-03-13 12:43:39
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Hi guys, I've been thinking a lot about Zookeeper and the future of Squirrelmail here in the last few weeks, and I believe I have come to a decision. Zookeeper is an extremely cool idea, but I have neither the time, will-power, or energy to bring it to completion. SquirrelMail is a webmail client, and only a webmail client right now, and I believe I would like to keep it that way. Yes, I can hear the sirens going off in Paul's head right now. :) He's very excited about Zookeeper. I think it's a very cool idea, but I don't think it'll come to existance in my lifetime -- I know that _I_ don't have time to take on a project that massive. SquirrelMail is big enough for me. So, my thinking is that we continue with the rewrite of SquirrelMail 2.0 like it was originally thought to be -- still just webmail. There are other people (PHPGroupWare) who can handle the other aspect of things. There are still users who only want webmail, and that is our target audience. No sense in stretching ourselves thin trying to please everybody. That said, I wouldn't mind at all if some of you wanted to take the Zookeeper plans and run with them yourselves. In fact, that would be excellent. What I AM saying is that I think my efforts will be put into a SquirrelMail that is still just webmail. Thoughts? Luke -- _ . . Luke Ehresman - "Codito, ergo sum" / v \ lu...@sq... /( )\ http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~lehresma ^^ ^^ (All your base are belong to us) |
From: Lewis B. <lbe...@ab...> - 2001-03-13 17:27:08
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. I could smell the bloat comming. My personal opinion is that we are better off trying to make a great webmail program and let other php developers integrate it with their group thingy or do-all whatsit. |
From: Ariel R. <ar...@fi...> - 2001-03-13 22:03:54
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spanish-help.tar.gz
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Thanks for the great job doing squirrelmail i am very hurry up !!! i am little time to write this e-mail this is my preview of spanish help ... please check for mistake and help me i translate 95 % of the all !!!! I promise write my second e-mail with more time Thanks Ariel Ravicovich |
From: Paul J. T. <th...@sq...> - 2001-03-13 20:34:27
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> I've been thinking a lot about Zookeeper and the future of Squirrelmail > here in the last few weeks, and I believe I have come to a decision. > Zookeeper is an extremely cool idea, but I have neither the time, > will-power, or energy to bring it to completion. SquirrelMail is a > webmail client, and only a webmail client right now, and I believe I > would like to keep it that way. > > Yes, I can hear the sirens going off in Paul's head right now. :) Wooo...wooo...woooo... ah! stop the noise!!! stop the noise!!! > He's very excited about Zookeeper. I think it's a very cool idea, but > I don't think it'll come to existance in my lifetime -- I know that _I_ > don't have time to take on a project that massive. SquirrelMail is big > enough for me. > > So, my thinking is that we continue with the rewrite of SquirrelMail > 2.0 like it was originally thought to be -- still just webmail. There > are other people (PHPGroupWare) who can handle the other aspect of > things. There are still users who only want webmail, and that is our > target audience. No sense in stretching ourselves thin trying to > please everybody. > > That said, I wouldn't mind at all if some of you wanted to take the > Zookeeper plans and run with them yourselves. In fact, that would be > excellent. What I AM saying is that I think my efforts will be put > into a SquirrelMail that is still just webmail. This may suprise you, Luke, but at this time I agree with this decision very very much. I too do not have the time required to bring Zookeeper into existence. I think it is a good idea. I think it is a great idea. I am very excited about the possiblities it holds. However, there are things in my life that are just more important right now (like my family, graduating, church stuff, etc). Does this mean I am giving up? No way. Zookeeper will come to life some day. I am going to write it because it just needs to be written. However, that might be a little while off. The earliest I can imagine even really having the time to start would be this summer. However, I do have a couple of thoughts pertaining to the development of SquirrelMail 2.0 in relationship to Zookeeper. While I agree that we need to move forward with SM2 at this point on its own, I think that we should carefully examine the plans that were in the works for Zookeeper. Then, when we develop SquirrelMail, we should take the best of those ideas and incorporate them into what we are going to produce. There are two reasons for this: * The thoughts behind a lot of zookeeper still apply to SM * It would be nice to be able to plan for the future possiblity of someday porting SquirrelMail to zookeeper. I think this second point can come out in a way that by NO MEANS restricts, bloats, or hinders SquirrelMail 2. Whatever the case, in developing SquirrelMail 2, here are some priorities that should remain at the head of everything we do: * Modularity allowing for easy replacement of backends (modules) * Modularity allowing for easy replacement of frontend (templates) * Good programming technique * etc, etc, etc...let the discussions commence! -- Paul Joseph Thompson Oklahoma State University th...@sq... |