Re: A complete summary of doc.keliglia.com status
| From: | Mehdi Achour | Date: | Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:22:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: A complete summary of doc.keliglia.com status | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | Groups: | php.doc.web |
| Request: | Send a blank email to doc-web+get-88@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
>> 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