Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
As some of you know, my personal blog runs on this software called "Linotype" that I wrote for myself (on top of cocoon) and then donated to the project to show an example of how simple it was to build even a real-life webapp with flow.
For this reason, Linotype ended being a cocoon example, rather than a blog. It has nice and innovative features (even more innovating than most content management solutions out there), but it lacks some basic configurability. As a result, I've been maintaining a forked version on my own and failed to keep the cocoon one and my own up to date.
Linotype had 4 different 'releases' (each driven by my personal frustration with some of its limitations), only two of those made it inside cocoon. I'm now working on the 5 major release, which is pretty much a complete rewrite of the internals and thus will be called Linotype 2.0, but since it will be based on RDF technologies, I have decided to place it on simile.mit.edu (site that I administer for my day job) and that might give more direct visibility than as a hidden cocoon example in its own block.
The new linotype codebase is all my code, but I have decided to keep the same licenses in case I missed a few lines here and there of those contributions that were made here by others. Also, I don't want this to be a fork, but a migration.
For this reason, I propose that we discontinue the distribution of Linotype inside cocoon as a block, by deprecating it in the next 2.1.x release and by removing it alltogether in 2.2
Of course, the project will remain an open development project and I will welcome people to try it out and participate in its development.
The Linotype 2.0 will feature easy configurability and skinning support, things that will make it more appealing for other users that don't want their blog to look just like mine.
Anyway, what do you think?
+1
Moving blocks outside Cocoon, will increase our (and especially your ;) ) motivation to make real blocks happen.
We should IMO have a list of links to external blocks with a short description about what the block does.
/Daniel
