On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 11:08:09 AM UTC-4, Richard wrote: > > Discourse seems really nice... It represents a lot of work... But as a > "proof of concept" I think we should considering to use our own tool > (web2py) to create our own mailing-list... Could we "seriously" be able to > manage our own list and write our own app for this? This is a big undertake > and maintenance contract... >
Although open source, Discourse is developed by a commercial enterprise (they offer hosting), and so it represents a substantial amount of development effort (though perhaps a web2py version could get a head start by using the Discourse Ember.js front end and attempting to replicate the Rails back end -- but if making a near exact copy, why bother?). For someone, perhaps developing a commercially-backed web2py-based alternative to Discourse would be worthwhile (though probably tough competition), but for the web2py core developers, I think the time might be better spent on (a) further developing web2py, (b) developing plugins and re-usable apps for web2py, and (c) web3py. Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
