[maemo-community] Comments about the maemo brainstorm

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:22, Oskari Kokko <osku at nemein.com> wrote:
>
> The idea (as far as I understood from bergie) is to create the
> functionality in Midgard, so that the karma can be easily
> calculated from there. Ideatorrent runs on top of Drupal and from
> my point of view, installing another CMS to the server isn't a
> good idea. So basicly, we take the funtionality from ideatorrent
> and port it to Midgard.

bergie committed you to completing this task in *this* (April 09) sprint:

    http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Sprints/April_09#Tasks

Porting a whole new IMS (Idea Management System ;-)) to midgard may be
fantastic for midgard, but is it the right way to deliver the
functionality on maemo.org in the time frame within which it was
promised?

Henri just wrote:
>
> The functionality itself is trivial enough that porting the module
> to Midgard is most likely much smaller effort than porting
> maemo.org templates to Drupal and setting that up *securely* on
> the server.

So the answer would appear to be "yes"; but it's a question I think we
should always keep in mind.

Cheers,

Andrew

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