[dev] Jonah vs. Thomas

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Oct 30 05:42:43 UTC 2007


Quoting Duck <duck at obala.net>:

> Thomas was not meant to be an CMS module. Initial designed as an community
> blog service. I have a some feature ideas and redesign plans but its goal
> will still be to be a multiply/single user blog service. So I don't see it as
> a front-end for publishing content on the horde website. As I don't see Jonah
> either. We will just mess up good dedicated modules for an general purpose.

Right, I don't see either as a full CMS.

> IMO Jonah should remain as an news feeder or rss aggregator. An CMS module
> should have an editor system, tracing differences between content versions,
> track-backs, connected with other modules (attachments from Gollem, link to
> shopping items from Merk...) and so on. So I would be happy to see an
> dedicated powerful module then extending Jonah or Thomas. I guess as a lot of
> companies uses Horde groupware will really like to see and module for such
> publishing and linking to their data that are already in their groupware
> intranet.

Yes, but such a thing will be a bunch of work to be worth it. I agree  
it'd be nice to have though.

-chuck


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