Re: CMS Review: Bricolage on the Nautis Project

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Phillip Smith wrote:
> Not entirely flattering with quotes like "the
Bricolage project
> should be considered dead"

But I think what he said there is mostly very accurate,
just a little out of date sometimes. (For example,
he said no version was released since June 2006 -
which was true until two weeks ago.. 
And if you didn't follow the mailing list,
and looked at kineticode.com and bricolage.cc,
I think it'd be reasonable to conclude
that David is still offering Bricolage support.)

This is exactly right:
"The core Bricolage package may stack up well against
some of
these other vendors but the lack of support and software
releases
will make IT managers think twice before going down this
path."
and this:
"Survival for an open source project relies on change
and
continual innovation to keep developers interested. If a
project
stagnates, it will not take long for developers to move on
to
something more challenging and exciting."

I'd hoped that maybe there'd be more hacking
after releasing 1.10.3, but, well....
http://marc.info/?l=bricolage-commits&r=1&
amp;b=200708&w=2
Ignore revs before 7959, two test commits by schwigon,
and one revert of accidentally committed code by theory,
and there have been 4 commits since the release August 9th,
of which one was a documentation tweak. Woohoo....


Something I didn't understand in the article:
"The system is remarkably similar to previous versions
of
the Interwoven publishing system where perl is used to
store
and generate static HTML files for publication on the web
server.
Unlike Interwoven, Bricolage has no virtualization module to
view
a site in its pre-production state."

What does that mean? It seems that's what previewing is.

On Aug 22, 2007, at 08:03, Scott Lanning wrote:

> But I think what he said there is mostly very
accurate,
> just a little out of date sometimes. (For example,
> he said no version was released since June 2006 -
> which was true until two weeks ago.. 
> And if you didn't follow the mailing list,
> and looked at kineticode.com and bricolage.cc,
> I think it'd be reasonable to conclude
> that David is still offering Bricolage support.)

I am still offering Bricolage support, just not consulting.

> I'd hoped that maybe there'd be more hacking
> after releasing 1.10.3, but, well....
> http://marc.info/?l=bricolage-commits&r=1&
amp;b=200708&w=2
> Ignore revs before 7959, two test commits by schwigon,
> and one revert of accidentally committed code by
theory,
> and there have been 4 commits since the release August
9th,
> of which one was a documentation tweak. Woohoo....

That's a lot more than has happened over most of the last
year. Give  
it some time.

> Something I didn't understand in the article:"The
system is  
> remarkably similar to previous versions of
> the Interwoven publishing system where perl is used to
store
> and generate static HTML files for publication on the
web server.
> Unlike Interwoven, Bricolage has no virtualization
module to view
> a site in its pre-production state."
>
> What does that mean? It seems that's what previewing
is.

Yep.

Best,

David