Re: First round of comments merging done

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Steven Armstrong wrote:
>
> After thinking a bit about the 'template stomping issue' I think Will is 
> right. When I look at my comment-story.html, its pretty much the same as 
> story.html anyway. I'll rewrite my html and css to work 'the Will way'. 
> Makes sense to me not to have redundant html snippets arround.
>
> I think before forking the plugin it would be a good idea to talk about 
> it and make a feature list or so.

Hmmm...  I think this is getting more attention than I was expecting. 
Ted wrote the comments plugin and as far as I'm concerned, it's just fine 
except for the template-stomping issue.  My issue with the 
template-stomping stems from the fact that it screws up a bunch of my 
plugins and I don't have another way to fix the issues involved.  Beyond 
that, I neither like nor dislike the template-stomping.

I only meant to point out that I can't use a comments plugin that stomps 
on the template specified in the entry because it screws up my plugins. 
Given that, I'll probably maintain my own comments plugin (something I've 
been doing for over 6 months anyhow).  Given that, I might as well offer 
my version as an alternative to the community by registering it in the 
plugin registry.  Given that, I might as well make some other changes 
because at that point I'd be maintaining my own version anyhow.

So...  that's what I mean by "forking" the comments plugin.

I definitely don't want to refactor the code.  I don't see any good reason 
to do that and I don't care enough to argue or discuss it.  If other 
people see a good reason for it and want to refactor it, that's cool--make 
your own comments plugin.

I also definitely don't want to turn it into a committee-based project. 
I'm really only looking to fix my specific needs and figured that while 
I'm doing that I might as well offer it to the community.

So, that's where I'm coming from.  If Ted wants to remove the 
template-stomping, then I have no issues and I will definitely take the 
path of least resistance because time is really really really precious 
right now and there are other things to work on.  If Ted decides there's a 
good reason for the template-stomping and thus keeps it (which is totally 
fine with me), then I'll maintain my own version and blah blah blah.

I hope that clears up any misconceptions.

/will


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