From: Ben <westbywest-AT-riseup.net>
Date: 17 Oct 2006 22:02:20 UTC   (05:02:20 PM in author's locale)
To: dadaIMC Discussion <dadaIMC-AT-lists.dadaimc.org>

Hello,

I am also curious about dadaimc dev status, and I have to admit, sadly,
that I find it rather telling that no one has responded yet to Rob
Wolff's query from last week.

I help run the St. Louis IMC, which uses dada. We have a laundry list
of errata discovered in the current codebase, and someday (?) I'd love
to spend time trying to fix a few of these things, so as to benefit the
rest of the dada community.

However, if the future of dadaimc codebase is in question, I do have to
admit some doubt in the utility of this time spent fixing bugs. For
example, I notice our nearest neighbor Urbana-Champaign IMC, which used
to run a heavily modified instance of dadaimc, has recently switched to
drupal. Is continued support of dadaimc becoming quixotic?

It would be really great to see frank discussion on this from other dada
developers, or at least acknowledgment they are involved in the CMS
evaluation process going now on in Indymedia tech collective.

P.S. This conversation also applies to the radicalendar service, which
is based on dada, and which itself has a number of "features" probably
unintended by the authors.

Rob Wolff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the current status for dada development? Currently, imc techs
> are discussing the possibility of moving to a different cms, and I
> wonder if this is a factor in the recent hiatus for folks working on
> dada. List info:
>
> lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-cms/
>
> What will become of dada as this process moves forward?
>
> rob

--
Ben West
westbywest-AT-riseup.net

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