[OpenFontLibrary] Phone conversation with Ed Trager

[Jon Phillips]

aiki

2010/3/8 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
> 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
>



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