Re: Fwd: [pndev] PN future - a modest proposal

I wish them luck in trying to figure out their status, direction, and
vision.

Zoom


On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 12:38, Brook Humphrey wrote:
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> Subject: [pndev] PN future - a modest proposal
> Date: Thu 15 Aug 2002 13:23:41
> From: mikespub <[email protected]>
> To: pndev-2xlU4q7ZSRJWk0Htik3J/[email protected], [email protected]
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> Since there are two views on how PN development & release should move
> forward, and the current "walk-out" is certainly not ideal for either
> view, I'd like to propose a slightly different organisation for PN
> in the future.
> 
> Basically, what I have in mind is a 2-speed approach :
> 
> 1) development of .8 moves ahead, and continues towards the 1.0 vision
> with reasonable (for development) steps. This would attract mainly the
> development community and early adopters - knowing well that
> intermediate versions are not guaranteed to be of full production
> quality (= alpha code).
> 
> 2) official release management is headed by a separate team (including
> project manager), taking into account the requirements for stability
> and support that have come to be expected of PN by many of the user
> community. This would attract mainly the "stable" user & support
> community, and that team would effectively decide what to release when
> to "the general public", so to speak.
> 
> Rather similar to the way Linux development & release/distribution is
> handled by different people, but still manages to stay a single core
> product.
> 
> Now for this to work, this would obviously require some reconciliation
> effort from both sides of the recent "struggle", but it would provide
> both "communities" with what they'd want most without endangering the
> future of Postnuke (and make me a much happier man at the same time).
> 
> How this should be set up in practice would be to be discussed between
> the old, current (& future) management, of course, but I don't see why
> e.g. Harry couldn't fill the release management seat, and some other
> PN "old-timer" would fill the development management seat. Both would
> have their priorities straight, and would work together to move
> Postnuke to the best possible future for *all* concerned.
> 
> The current *.postnuke.com and international sites would remain as the
> primary focus of "release" versions of PN, and the developer.* (or
> whatever) sites would be expanded to offer better support for core/module/
> 
> block/theme people working on the current "development" version of PN,
> with adequate cross-linking between all.
> 
> CVS might stay as it is, with PostNuke_71 branch and MAIN branch, or
> (probably better), there could be a separate directory for the current
> "release" version and for the current "development" version.
> 
> I only hope that the old/current/future management people can come to
> an understanding like this...
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> Mike.
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