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Re: dev status?

From: data_monkey <data_monkey-AT-earthlink.net>
Date: 18 Oct 2006 02:06:20 UTC   (09:06:20 PM in author's locale)
To: dadaIMC Discussion <dadaIMC-AT-lists.dadaimc.org>, 	dadaIMC Discussion  <dadaIMC-AT-lists.dadaimc.org>
I help with the DC IMC site. I would be interested in working on some of the bug fixes that you and we have encountered. Maybe we can put up a list on one of the sites and work through some of the problems collectively.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben <westbywest-AT-riseup.net>
>Sent: Oct 17, 2006 6:02 PM
>To: dadaIMC Discussion <dadaIMC-AT-lists.dadaimc.org>
>Subject: Re: dev status?
>
>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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