[dev] Jonah vs. Thomas

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> 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?

Well, besides the fact that I'd have to refactor all my websites if  
Jonah no longer served news... ;)

I think Thomas would be best suited for people that wanted to run a  
simple, traditional type of community blog.  The site has members,  
each member has his/her own (single) blog with the ability to make use  
of trackbacks etc...
It's simple for end users, log in, click "Add Blog" and away you go.

For installs that might be used to feed content to other non-horde  
apps I think Jonah is more flexible for the reasons outlined in my  
original post, although admittedly this would probably not be the most  
frequent use case.

I think the danger here is in trying to make either of these apps an  
"all in one" solution for both serving content, aggregating/reading,  
and blogging.  I agree with your other post though about a news reader  
being too simple for one app.  I rarely read news via Jonah, and when  
I do, it's almost always in a Horde_Block on my front portal page.

I don't know, maybe I'm using Jonah in a way that it wasn't really  
designed for?


Thanks,
mike

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