Re: filestat - a different perspective

I just found pyblosxum, which by coincidence happened to be at about the
same time Will posted to his blog about not having enough help with the
project.

I've been doing Unix stuff for about 10 years.  I have been looking for a
publishing system that is flexible and hackable.  I'm not afriad of
editing config files directly.  I've used MT for a while, and I have to
admit I'm not happy with the model.  They are geared toward LCD end users,
which is fine, its just not for me. Also, I'm not hacking on someone
else's
commercial product for free.

> LiveJournal.  I see PyBlosxom's audience as other
> developers/hackers--people who just want a framework to build off of.

Sounds good to me.

> And I also realize gearing things towards
> hacker-types doesn't necessarily get us out of the business of making
things work better out of the box.

Totally agree.

>
>> Again, think of Zope vs. Plone.  Zope does it all, but as far as I can
tell, Plone makes it more accessible to a broader set of users.  I think
>> the same dichotomy applies here, and the same synergies can apply.
>
I think Zope is just insane.  Way too complicated.  I went to a
developer's conference in Europe where Python was one of the big topics. 
There are a lot of Zope hackers over there.  Anyway, they convinced me to
give it a look.  Their persistence model looks like something straight out
of the '98 Object Oriented hey days.  Just not my sort of thing.

The question I have is how important is backward compatibility of blosxom
features?  In my opinion I think pyblosxom isn't the best name.  It makes
it sound like a will be compatible with blosxom.  If I'm going to provide
patches to the framework, I don't want to be limited by that constraint.

PyBlosxom isn't just a fork of blosxum, which would make staying in
feature parity difficult but doable, it is a complete rewrite in another
language.  One that I find far more productive than say Perl.  Staying in
feature parity with blosxum is going to be very difficult, and may not be
the best use of hackers' time.

Will, in your blog posts you discuss getting a new release out.  Do you
have a list of exactly what needs to be done.  I've found that the best
way to approach something that seems overwhelming is to just break it down
into small milestones, and attack them one at a time.  Fortunately in the
FOSS world the attack can be multi-fronted.

-- 
Christopher Baus
http://www.baus.net/
Tahoe, Wine, and Linux.







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