Somebody just pointed me towards this thread and I thought I'd give my two cents...
What you get with latova is not really a fully featured forum system, DLDB, wiki, and whatever, you more get my own personal coding style of doing things. I lay out my objectives before doing a project, and emphasize the fundamentals. Which is why, it may not be the prettiest way of doing it, but it works, well. One of my objectives for maplantis was to work on very simplistic features. Minimal user input and clutter, but maximum information output. The idea is that I was making a mapping site where you'd find what you were after as quickly as possible, and avoid all the community mombo jumbo if you wanted to avoid it.
It worked for me, but it may not necessarily work for IP, or SENers for that matter.
Latova isn't finished, I still have major plans. Hell I'm planning a major kernel revision out of a few things I picked up by examining some php frameworks that I've had to investigate as a part of my full time job. At this point I just need to manage my time a little better to get the ball rolling again.
IP is a coder, and he's similar to the kind of coder I am. We like to do things ourselves. It's half the fun in coding in the first place, and we learn in the process.
If you want to help SEN I suggest you tell him how you'd like things to be while he's developing it. "Use latova/maplantis" won't really cut it, so take your favorite parts about it and lay it out.
If you're after a maplantis remake or something, it's been tried already and didn't go anywhere, mostly because I really don't want to spend the time to set it up for somebody, they need to figure it out on their own. I got other stuff to do now.
Yoshi in the first place. And for anyone who thinks that isn't a factor, pay a bit more attention to SEN's dramatic history.
Well I like to think we aren't enemies, we've just had a couple of disagreements and I tend to be a total asshole to deal with
I've had more than my share of screw ups. I tend not to proof read posts I make so sometimes I say something wrong, especially when it's something sensitive, and along the road with SEN and Maplantis, I've taken big risks, made some mistakes, had some successes, but that's just kindof how I roll.
Admittedly his tolerance is pretty high. I mean, I did make maplantis under a different alias (which could be viewed as under-minding SEN, but I just wanted to code a new mapping site that I've always wanted SEN to be running under latova and encourage some mappers to leave their maps open instead of that huge map protection controversy that was going around).
Generally though, most of our disagreements were at a developer to developer level, not really personal. That's at least how I think it is. Although we rarely talk to each other about coding problems we both have developing our respective projects so who knows.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 8 2009, 4:58 pm by Yoshi.
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