aiki 2010/3/8 Robert Martinez <m...@mray.de>: > On 03/08/2010 04:47 PM, Ed Trager wrote: >> >> Hi, everyone, >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine >> <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >> >> To set the record straight, like many of you I've been wondering all >> these months what the holdup was with the cchost prototype? I >> contributed a bunch of code to that, and naturally would like to see >> the fruits of my labor --as well as the fruits of the labors of so >> many others-- realized. >> >> So this puzzlement was really the genesis of my conversation with >> Dave. And my suspicion going into the conversation was: is cchost >> part of the problem? >> >> Also, I was thinking is cchost the right platform for what we want to do? >> >> So, I was thinking, let's explore an alternative pathway: What do we >> want to do? Write that down as an outline. If the most important >> parts of what we want to do are simple and straightforward, then let's >> just write a custom web app to do it. >> >> But note that such a custom web app would still capitalize on stuff >> that we already collectively know how to do well anyway: i.e., PHP >> with MySQL and, on the Javascript side, jQuery. >> >> Also, for the login and security aspects I was thinking about using >> OpenId (OpenId.net). >> >> Also, I've been working on a bunch of jQuery-based code for web >> applications in my day job, and have also been thinking of using >> OpenId for some web apps in my day job. So I was visualizing how I >> might be able to apply and reuse some of what I have been doing in my >> paid work toward the OFLB project. >> >> Now if Aiki is a really good solution to the problems, then I won't >> argue against it. But is it a really good solution or not? I don't >> yet know, because I only heard about it yesterday when talking with >> Dave, and I don't yet know anything else about it. >> >> In the end, I only argue for using the right tool(s) for the job. So >> that could be Aiki or something else. But it looks more and more like >> cchost was really not the right tool, and from what I understand, >> modifying and customizing cchost was very laborious and frought with >> bugs. >> >> >>>>> >>>>> Ed suggests just talking about OFLB v2 again for the 4th time at LGM? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> Umm ... I wasn't even at LGM in the last couple of years ... >> >> >>>> >>>> Ed is offering to cut the code for this, so, don't be mean to him. :-) >>>> >>> >>> What's the point of being mean when I can be nasty? :) >>> >>> >> >> It's OK, Alexandre, I'll take it if you agree to let me dish it out too :-) >> >> >>> >>> Alexandre >>> >>> >> >> - Ed >> > > Was it ever considered to use drupal and enhance it? > Ed seems to know it, and I got the feeling there are plenty of PHP savvy > people here. > In terms of reusing a live community and popular code base it might be a good > idea. > > Just a thought! Please don't lynch me for bringing that up if it was a bad > idea :) > > > Robert >
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