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

[Martin Burns]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Dean Mah wrote:

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

In terms of what we *do* (as opposed to who we are - of course we're
special :-) ), very little. The vast majority of the functionality
(90+%) we need below the presentation layer is pretty standard.

> > 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.

Plus a number of OSS solutions already have mailman user list integration
which would remove our current most pointed example of data fragmentation.

Cheers
Martin

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