[pmwiki-users] pmwiki.org seems slow today btw

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Sebastian Siedentopf wrote:

> I'm very sorry to hear about that. Afair this was my first recipe and I
> was just a php beginner back then. The script grows organicaly and the
> code is a mess now and needs to be rewritten.

Oh, don't worry about it - Pm should have some difficult issues to figure 
out ;-)

Perhaps it would make sense to activate recipes in a separate field, or 
perhaps even a separate field for each recipe?

> But this brings up an other point: I do not upload recipts anymore,
> because people expect that original author maintains the recipt through
> all the PmWiki updates. This is understandable, but not always possible.

I agree, but it should be enough to put a disclaimer on the recipe page.

> I for one miss some kind of Hack or Snippet section where you can
> exchange code snippets or non production/recipt quality code.

Well, why not start such a section? It could either just be a page(s)  in
the Cookbook, or a separate group.

/Christian

> Sometimes you have written a usefull function but no time or interest to
> make a full featured stand-alone recipt out of it, but it could be
> helpfull to some other who solves an equal problem.
>
> Maybe an agressive "please pick up and recode" badget/categorie would  
> do the job. Or/and an explicit "this receipt is currently maintained  
> by xyz/none" to show if someone/who is the current maintainer.
> 
> Sebastian
> 

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