[Fwd: [Antville-user] Is Antville now dying slowly or...]

on behalf of Martin.

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Subject: [Antville-user] Is Antville now dying slowly or...
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:14:05 +0100
From: Martin Schäfer <martin.schafer@...>
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To: <antville-user@...>

is Twoday the follow-up release of Antville?

For me, a user of Antville, a blogger at Towday.net and with a testing
account at
typolis.net, the recent postings by Antville developer Tobi
http://blog.p3k.org/stories/4054/
and Twoday developer Michi
http://michi.knallgrau.at/blog/stories/1315871/
raise some questions and demand some analysis.

Tobi claims there's not much feedback by developers and cooperation among
them. Michi initiates a new sourceforge project to develop the
Antville/Helma based Twoday project even further.

Why do people not communicate with each other?
Why do people not cooperate with each other?

Actually, there's some spread development and knowledge (attached with
people) at
http://weblogs.brandnews.at
http://typolis.net
http://twoday.net
http://antville.org

And from a simple minded user's point of view (take me) who only wants the
most recent features like tags, trackback, rss2, moblogging all should be
fine, because all these features are implemented somewhere.
tags: brandnews, typolis; trackback: twoday; rss2: don't know; moblogging:
twoday, typolis -- at least.
(Gosh, there's much activity but nobody puts it together.)

>From a developer's point of view, all is about sharing knowledge to bring
any of these four projects further.

Well, that's only the setting for an analysis. Some personal impressions by
myself:
Do we have now two different camps of the project formerly known as
Antville?
There's antville.org with the original project site where you hardly find
any movement in 2005. The maintainer and core developer and gate keeper do a
pretty god job to keep www.antville.org running, but feel more related to
develop Helma, no time to enhance Antville. And there's Twoday, with a
corporate background, doing more
pace, reacting promptly on the needs of users (of course, a must for doing
business). Thus, Twoday is forced to take the lead.

Sadly enough it's now up to developers and users to bet on the right horse.

I would appreciate your feedback to make things clearer.
Martin

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