Personally, I don't think that there is that much wrong with PM.

You're talking about features. Feature-wise, there is not much wrong except the performance. However, contributing code to PM is much harder than for most open source projects, and the site suffers because of it.

If PM had all of its code in CVS, and a clear installation procedure, and a test suite (with fake data) to tell you if you broke something, there would be a lot more people helping out with the code. I'm not sure there's any way to get there without a complete rewrite, as Liz suggested, and I share her doubts that anyone will manage to find time to do that. A migration to a later version of Everything might be easier, but I'm not certain of that.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Total speculation? by perrin
in thread Total speculation? by BrowserUk

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