[OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

[Robert Martinez]

On 03/08/2010 04:47 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote:
>>
>>      
>>>>> Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp.
>>>>>            
>>>>          
> To set the record straight, like many of you I've been wondering all
> these months what the holdup was with the cchost prototype?  I
> contributed a bunch of code to that, and naturally would like to see
> the fruits of my labor --as well as the fruits of the labors of so
> many others-- realized.
>
> So this puzzlement was really the genesis of my conversation with
> Dave.  And my suspicion going into the conversation was: is cchost
> part of the problem?
>
> Also, I was thinking is cchost the right platform for what we want to do?
>
> So, I was thinking, let's explore an alternative pathway:  What do we
> want to do?  Write that down as an outline.  If the most important
> parts of what we want to do are simple and straightforward, then let's
> just write a custom web app to do it.
>
> But note that such a custom web app would still capitalize on stuff
> that we already collectively know how to do well anyway: i.e., PHP
> with MySQL and, on the Javascript side, jQuery.
>
> Also, for the login and security aspects I was thinking about using
> OpenId (OpenId.net).
>
> Also, I've been working on a bunch of jQuery-based code for web
> applications in my day job, and have also been thinking of using
> OpenId for some web apps in my day job.  So I was visualizing how I
> might be able to apply and reuse some of what I have been doing in my
> paid work toward the OFLB project.
>
> Now if Aiki is a really good solution to the problems, then I won't
> argue against it.  But is it a really good solution or not?  I don't
> yet know, because I only heard about it yesterday when talking with
> Dave, and I don't yet know anything else about it.
>
> In the end, I only argue for using the right tool(s) for the job.  So
> that could be Aiki or something else.  But it looks more and more like
> cchost was really not the right tool, and from what I understand,
> modifying and customizing cchost was very laborious and frought with
> bugs.
>
>    
>>>> Ed suggests just talking about OFLB v2 again for the 4th time at LGM?
>>>>          
>>>        
> Umm ... I wasn't even at LGM in the last couple of years ...
>
>    
>>> Ed is offering to cut the code for this, so, don't be mean to him. :-)
>>>        
>> What's the point of being mean when I can be nasty? :)
>>
>>      
> It's OK, Alexandre,  I'll take it if you agree to let me dish it out too :-)
>
>    
>> Alexandre
>>
>>      
> - Ed
>    

Was it ever considered to use drupal and enhance it?
Ed seems to know it, and I got the feeling there are plenty of PHP savvy 
people here.
In terms of reusing a live community and popular code base it might be a 
good idea.

Just a thought! Please don't lynch me for bringing that up if it was a 
bad idea :)


Robert