[dev] Jonah vs. Thomas

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

>> So, I still think that having two feed/news/blog applications doesn't
>> make a whole lot of sense. I have spent a lot of time with Jonah but
>> IMO it's not worth to work on two feed creators with the limited
>> developer resources we have. Assuming that Thomas provides us with the
>> feed generation capabilities that Jonah has, or can at least be
>> updated easily to be on par with it, how about making Jonah a pure
>> feed aggregator and reader?
>
> I'd have to at least partially disagree.  While I agree that there  
> is  some overlap between the two apps, I see Jonah as a more  
> flexible,  customizable application.  With Jonah and it's api, I can  
> maintain  "news" for a number of different websites from the same  
> Horde install.   These are not necessarily "Blogs".  I can create a  
> different channel  for each website and composite some of those  
> feeds together if needed.  In some ways, I can see it being used as  
> a mini-CMS.  While Thomas is  an excellent choice for maintaining a  
> community Blog, it's a  completely different paradigm.  I think it  
> would be awkward to  implement different feeds like that in a Blog  
> application.

In that case, what do you see as the advantages of Thomas over Jonah?

-chuck