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I would
like to know your feelings about the RC versions of Drake CMS. Our goal is to improve stability - are we reaching this
goal?
Please be as much critic as you can.
The next Drake CMS release (Bronze Dragon) could be one of the
most usable and bugfree as most of the UI bugs have been
addressed.
As you have probably noticed, the CMS is
not really changing in the most recent releases - only bugfixes
and small additions. We are working on consistency under all
aspects of design.
Thank you
adrian
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
13 November 2007 18:20
Anonymous
Drake CMS is getting better. Definitely! I begun using it
since 044. FOr example articles "Comment" was not a
working function until 046. But i waited paciently. I understand
that we have a little team. I cannot go back to Joomla now, as i
also begun to create my tech site using Drake. 048RC4 seems to be
the most stabe and usable ever (but lattely i saw it has some
little DB and Forum issues). 047RC2 or RC3 was released without
testing it (in admin panel, the "Create a new page or
article was not working -- so at that time i told myself, that
Drake CMS devs have big problems... ). From about 6 weeks i'm always watching the developers area
stats, and lately i see more activity, more devs username acting,
thats nice!). Daniele, I would like to tell you to post on
the home page big bug issues found betweend releases and
resolved, as we don`t read alwyays all the forum discutions). Also, I/we would like to know how big can a site be based on
gladius db vs. mysql until it crashes -- number of posts,
coments, users etc. -- as some of us dream about using Drake CMS
for a portal. I`ll come back, as i remember what i have to
say. Thanks.
legolas558
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
13 November 2007 20:50
Anonymous
Quote by adrian:
047RC2
or RC3 was released without testing it (in admin panel, the
"Create a new page or article was not working -- so at that
time i told myself, that Drake CMS devs have big problems...
).
True. And we do not always test everything as
bugs do happen even in the most unusual places...luckly our
testers are real hunters and do find them
quickly, although sometimes the too much high development rate
does not allow them to fully debug Drake CMS before releases
Quote:
Daniele, I
would like to tell you to post on the home page big bug issues
found betweend releases and resolved, as we don`t read alwyays
all the forum discutions).
We once had a changelog,
now we are just exposing the SVN changelog...I hope we will
restore the written changelog one day
Quote:
Also, I/we
would like to know how big can a site be based on gladius db vs.
mysql until it crashes -- number of posts, coments, users etc. --
as some of us dream about using Drake CMS for a portal.
I don't yet know but I assume it can be really very big; I
suppose that Gladius DB pushes PHP to use more memory vs MySQL so
if you do not have a memory limit of 8MB you could theorically
store up to 2/3 or 1/2 of your memory in the Gladius DB columns.
Some benchmarks could be useful too
adrian
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
15 November 2007 20:58
Anonymous
Daniele, i`m drunk right now. So let me tell you how do i see
right now Drake CMS. I believed that implementing new features is
right, before the final first stable release. But. From now on it
is not. I tested some of the svn testing versions and, new
features means new general bugs... I'm not a project manager, but
i think that, at this moment, Drake CMS as speaking of basic
features is the most advanced on the "market". I think
that`s a better idea to freez it NOW!. And making it work
correctly! In every sense. If we (YOU... i don`t know about php,
css etc. very much) don`t make it completely and correctly
functional NOW!, next year some of us will think about moving to
other CMS'S (Gruppy for those wanting flat file db, Joomla 1.5
for MySQL, e107, php-fusion 7 etc.). ???? Am I 1% right? Di
mi!
legolas558
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
16 November 2007 11:52
Anonymous
Quote by adrian:
I think
that`s a better idea to freez it NOW!
I agree!
The CMS is considered "frozen" since RC1, the problem
is that some features are not really features but API-level
fixing, which creates new features...
The idea is to remove all inconstistencies before the Stable
release, so that the CMS is no more a "moving target"
for developers and still is perfectly clean in its API
Edit: About the SVN version: the trunk does
not have to be perfectly stable, some bugfixes and improvements
can create new bugs of course - our testers are there for
this. The released version has to be free from that. You
cannot pretend that the SVN trunk is perfectly bugfree, that's
not the purpose of an SVN repository
siedlerchr
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
17 November 2007 12:11
Anonymous
I think Drake is really stable, ok, there are some things, that
do not work (glide through the local folders, when adding a pic
or sth. like this)
If these things are fixed, it is
absolutely stable, I think.
There must be a standard,
for all addons etc, so that they all work correctly with the
"final" drake version.
Regards, Siedlerchr
legolas558
Re: Is Drake CMS getting more stable?
19 November 2007 10:55
Anonymous
Quote by Siedlerchr:
There must be a standard, for all addons etc, so that they all
work correctly with the "final" drake version.
There is a standard! It is partially
documented in the official documentation - as it is not yet
finished - but it is indeed consistent and very extensible
Is Drake CMS getting more stable? 
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