keonaXMS - a phpwcms outbreak?

frold · Post by **frold** » Thu 29. Sep 2005, 15:48

http://sourceforge.net/projects/keonaxms

Seems like cguenther is building his own script on phpwcms - what do you know about that?

Do cguenther and OG work together on this or is it a "attack" on phpwcms?

I cant find any post in this forum when searching on "keonaXMS" - weird?

jscholtysik · Post by **jscholtysik** » Thu 29. Sep 2005, 15:56

Hi frold,

OG is definitely not working together with Chris Guenther on this "project".

I asked him about this fork try some weeks ago and he was not very amused about this.

Joachim

Kosse · Post by **Kosse** » Thu 29. Sep 2005, 15:58

Sourceforge:

The project will start with fork of phpwcms (as we already did with our modifications of phpwcms). We want to push the CMS more into the XML direction. Much other features like: accessability, workflow- and usermanagement should be added.

CGuenther's site:

keonaXMS

keonaXMS ist ein CMS, dass ausschließlich auf die Verarbeitung von XML-Daten und XML-Dokumenten ausgerichtet ist.

Im Vordergrund bei der Entwicklung stehen:

1. XML-Funktionaliäten,
2. Content Syndication mit XML-Im- und -Export,
3. Redaktions- und Workflowprozesse,
4. feinkörnige Rechteverwaltung auf Benutzer- und Gruppenebene,
5. Unterstützung mehrere Sprachen pro Seite und
6. einfache Erzeugung barrierefreier Informationen aus XML.

Ziel ist ein modulares und XML-basiertes CMS.

Das Projekt startet als Fork von phpWCMS v1.1-RC4. Basis wird eine abgespeckte Version unseres CORE-Release von phpWCMS sein. Alle 'unnötigen' Funkionalitäten, wie bspw. der WYSIWYG-Editor, werden entfernt.

Seems like they're pretty clear about their intentions.
If what they do can benefit phpwcms, why not? But if OG is not ok with it I think they should respect his decision... Anyway...this is Open Source, right

The only thing, -maybe- (I really don't want to speak before knowing what it is) the message seems a little "marketing-oriented" as we all know the usermanagment is a big issue for a lot of people.

Cheers

brans · Post by **brans** » Sun 2. Oct 2005, 20:24

Well as you noticed correctly, that's OpenSource. I don't see any negative point on creating forks from OpenSource products, it's just the way OpenSource is meant to be.

profix898 · Post by **profix898** » Sun 2. Oct 2005, 21:31

I don't see any negative point on creating forks from OpenSource products

You're right, I can't see any negative with that, either.
But for the community, I think, we would simply prefer them to put their
creativity into phpWCMS instead of creating a fork of it. It seems they are
OK with the CMS - as is - but want to add extra xml functionality.
The other objectives they put on their tasklist comply to those of phpWCMS.

Thilo

brans · Post by **brans** » Mon 3. Oct 2005, 08:45

cguenther wrote:Basis wird eine abgespeckte Version unseres CORE-Release von phpWCMS sein.

Which means, that they are not ok with the functionality, they want to remove unnecessary parts of phpwcms core code, which in my opinion is a perfect reason for splitting the fork.