[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:39:26PM -0800, .jeff wrote:

> for one, i think we're currently sending a positive message to the
> community that open source and "non" open source solutions can be
> made to live together.

Or a confusing one.  Do we support particular commercial product(s)?


> for two, i have zero experience with the open source offerings
> mentioned and would not be able to help in any capacity should we go
> that route. that means that any knowledge i've gained through the
> lifecycle of teo/weo as they currently stand would be lost.

Design, ideas, and experience (lessons learned) are all valuable
contributions.


> third, our needs have become diverse enough that a prebuilt solution
> (open source or not) is not going to fit our needs without heavy
> customization.

What makes our little empire special?


> finally, in my experience, integration of lots of disparate
> pre-built applications results in fragmentation of data.  if we
> think we have a problem with integration now, just wait until we
> start down the path suggested above.

geeklog, or PHPNuke, or whatever, would be one application.  We
already use mailman, Apache, sendmail, and postfix.  There doesn't
seem to be a lot of disparate applications being introduced.

Dean