This conversation seems to have degenerated (although that would imply it
had somewhere to degenerate from) into a Fusebox vs. non-Fusebox debate, and
there is certainly no dearth of places on the 'net (or even HouseOfFusion)
to find that.
I do agree, however, that starting and running an open source project
involves a lot more than just writing some code. One needs to consider how
a group of disparate programmers can possibly all contribute to a product,
in their spare time, and maintain a level of quality and productivity, in
terms of both programming and meeting requirements. Although it sounds
great to just get a bunch of gung ho programmers together, I think that
project management will be very important. We don't really want to spend
90% of our time arguing with each other, and only 10% getting actual work
done on the project.
There's a site that exists to help you manage open source projects called
sourceforge.net. There are probably other sites like it out there, and
perhaps some of you might have another suggestion, but it looks pretty good
to me at first glance. I suggest that anyone truly interested in starting
something should take a look at this site and then get back to the list with
their comments on its usefulness. Even if we don't use that site, I think
we definitely need something like it.
I agree with comments made by a couple of posters that we should follow the
general steps of the SDLC, meaning that we should start by defining our
requirements, then move onto design, and finally to writing some code.
During the design phase we need to choose a design that lends itself to this
type of programming - that is probably the time to re-ignite the Fusebox
debate. Anyone involved should be willing to accept whatever design
methodology the majority choose, or they may bow out of the project.
Although I don't have a great deal of time, I'm going to start poking around
sourceforge.net to see how valuable it might be, and I'd be interested in
hearing from others with ideas about what we need to do at this stage - the
beginning of the project.
Thanks,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick McElhaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: July 31, 2001 8:52 AM
To: CF_OpenSource
Subject: RE: Content Management tool
Zac wrote:
> Any set methodology is going to limit the number of people using it.
>
I won't touch it if it's not Fuseboxed and I'm sure I'm not the
only one. I say that not because I'm a Fusebox fanatic, but because
I don't know of any other frameworks that are even reasonable. Do
we even have any other options?
Patrick
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
