[imc-cms] [bitweaver-core] Indymedia.org CMS Developers Survey - please read!

[Lee Bell]

>
> INDYMEDIA CMS DEVELOPERS SURVEY
> Please fill in as many questions as you can. When you are completed,
> you should email your responses to imc-cms at lists.indymedia.org
>
> 1) Survey Part 1 - Personal Details

a) Your name? Lee L. Bell
b) Your geographic location? Dallas, Texas, USA
c) How long have you worked with Bitweaver and what work do you do with the
project? I joined the bitweaver team shortly after the split with tikiwiki
(10-30-03). It was named TikiPro at that point. My knowledge level was not
great when I started and contented myself with documentation. I started
working on the plugins that bw uses everywhere. For personal reasons I have
been unable to be very active durring the last year. At present I am
develloping my first package.
d) Do you work on any other CMS projects? I am still a member of tikiwiki
but I am not active on it.

>
> 2) Survey Part 2 - CMS Basics
>    a) What programming language is Bitweaver written in? PHP with Smarty
> templates. JavaScript plays an important roll as well.
>
>    b) What is the backend database used by Bitweaver? bitweaver uses the
> adodb package which allows several databases to be used including: MySQL /
> Postgress and many more.
>
>    c) Are there other servers required (application server, Tomcat, etc)?
> not sure what your asking here. I use Apache on my test sites but windows
> ISS works as well.
>
>    d) How do you describe the overall software design of Bitweaver? the
> structure of bitweaver was designed from the ground up to be expanded.
> DataBase access is constantly being trimed and optomized while the use of
> cache files increases. There is more work to be done but it is fairly lean
> an mean.
>
>    e) Can you give details about real-world scaleability considerations
> for Bitweaver? Not really.
>
> 3) Survey Part 3 - CMS Functionality
>    a) A core feature of our software is the ability for anonymous users to
> post media to appear on the site. Is this easily added to a site using
> Bitweaver? Yes - Anonymous users can be allowed to post. A bw site can be
> configured to limit the amout of access that any group has.
>
>    b) Can you describe the site search functionality available? There are
> several levels of searching available. The best uses the Lucene package for
> very fast database searches. This is aided by the Liberty package which
> stores most of the data in a single dbase.
>
>    c) How is RSS/XML/RDF support included? RSS Yes / Not sure beyond that.
>
>    d) We would like to have one server per site which allows many
> instances of actual websites, each with different admin logins and different
> websites altogether. Is this easy to set up with Bitweaver? Definatly.
> Although I have not done this it is possible. The primary site for bitweaver
> links several sites using one set of code with shared dbase tables for
> users.
>
>    e) Can you describe the multimedia support in the software? We allow
> users to upload and manipulate online all types of media - mpeg, mp3, ogg,
> jpg, pdf, etc. Again this is something that I personally haven't done. I
> have included flash PDF and Java applets in wiki pages
>
>    f) Internationalization is very important to us. Many of our sites
> support 2-3 or more languages. Can you describe how this is accomplished in
> Bitweaver? Not very well at present. Most text that the application uses is
> encased in tra (or tr for Smarty templates) function calls. A seperate
> routine combines all of these strings into a master listing which can then
> be interpreted by someone who speaks another language. If the string exists
> for a given language it is used. If not . . . .
>
>    g) What types of anti-abuse or anti-spam measures are in the code?
>
>    h) Is there a calendar included in the codebase? Yes
>
>    i) How do you describe how a user would edit a given piece of content
> on the website, or briefly describe the model used in this part of the
> functionality? This depends in part on how the site is configured. The
> FckEditor is included but other editors are also available. Knowledge of
> HTML is not necessary.
>
>    j) How do you describe any type of user moderation system that is built
> into Bitweaver?
>
>    k) What types of integration is there with P2P networks?
>
>    l) Another important feature for us is networking between the websites.
> If we want users from one website to have rights on another website in the
> network, how could we do this? If the sites are on the same server they can
> share the users table in the dbase. Beyond that????
>
>    m) We are concerned with the ability to easily rsync pages from a
> website to other servers and setup a type of mirroring scheme. How would
> this be accomplished with Bitweaver?
>
> 4) Survery Part 4 - Miscellaneous
>    a) What do you believe are the top selling points for Bitweaver? Speed
> and expandability. The latter was the primary reason I joined the team.
>
>    b) From what you know about the Indymedia network, how well do you
> think IMC would mesh with the development community for the CMS? Not at all
> - but the bitweaver team has been really good to me and I doubt if you would
> have any problems with it.
>
>    c) What are the top 3 areas you believe the development team for the
> CMS needs to be improved? This is difficult. bitweaver started out with
> everything in TikiWiki and it's taken a long time to eliminate their
> idiosyncracise. We still have most of the functionallity with a core that is
> more stable and a lot faster. New things include Mapping and our own Forum.
> Both are still in their infancy.
>
>    d) Where do you see Bitweaver in five years? Bigger / Better / and
> Faster.
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration. Please return this survey
> to imc-cms at lists.indymedia.org
>
>
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