Re: A complete summary of doc.keliglia.com status

From: Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:22:42 +0000
Subject: Re: A complete summary of doc.keliglia.com status
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>> Yes I think we were stopped too many time. I was studying for my exams, >> and >> I couldn't help much. >> >> I think now we should vote for a new design. Sincerely, I like >> Medhi's/Yannicks's design. The current/Goba design is too >> simple/lightweight... >> >> The most important thing now is to have the code in CVS ASAP, so that we >> can >> distribute tasks and start working! > > The most important thing is to build some solid base on which we can > expand. The code in keliglia CVS is very messy, it is even not English > at many places... It is not a good idea to just hurry and hack up some > stuff, which will not be possible to build on, or we will come to a > situation similar to the bugs.php.net codebase, which is very hard to > even touch without being afraid that you will eventually break something > to small pieces... > > Having project specific designs, images, etc. is hard to manage. We > don't need unmanageable stuff on our shoulders, do we? We are not to > provide eyecandy, but to provide working services. To enable us to work > on the stuff, we need clean code, and a clean interface. Code that > others will understand. Code that follows coding standards. The current > code is far from this. > > IMHO the design created by Yannick and Mehdi is not good, it is even not > suitable to be eyecandy. My position in such situations is that it is to > have cleaner layouts without much eyecandy than some site on which you > see that it was intended to be eyecandy, but it was a failure. > > The stuff we need now is cleanup, cleanup and cleanup. If the code is so messy, I can drop the whole CVS module and you can start everything from scratch. Get everything you need from CVS and tell me when it's done. didou

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