Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Markus Petersen <markus AT mdev.dk>]

Thank you for your comments, all of you. We will consider what to do next.

Regards,
Markus

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Markus Petersen <markus AT mdev.dk> wrote:
>> You are, of course, right. The problem is that our time is constrained
>> very much, and the newest release of ccHost seemed very easily
>> breakable and not "polished". Suddenly it would stop working after
>> just changing the configuration in the administration panel, or the
>> uploads would fail without any further notices. We have not
>> encountered any of this in 4.5. Normally we would submit a lot of bug
>> reports, but in our case, it was just easier to revert to 4.5.
>>
>> I hope you are not offended by my words. But 4.5 is probably what we
>> are going to continue working with. So to come back to my original
>> question: is there documentation available for 4.5?
>
> The docs for 4.5 are here
> http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/
>
> for TODAY - but they could easily disappear as that part of the CC
> servers are moved around and re-cast any minute.
>
> No one is offended here but I am a little confused - the ccHost 5.0
> code has been up and operating on ccMixter for exactly a year (!) and
> (trust me) the admin's bang on the admin/config screens a lot!
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you have encountered issues but I can not
> encourage STRONGLY enough to just be a little more patient with 5.0
> and just report the bugs to the database, or this list or just my
> private email and I can bang them out. I would be shocked if they are
> anything more than typos or missing 'require()' and other trivial
> issues ("trivial" for me, frustrating and time consuming for you, I
> understand).
>
> Heed this: Whatever short terms gains you think you are getting from
> reverting to 4.5 will cost you in the long run as opposed to 5.x - I
> know, I run a big, popular ccHost site ;)
>
> VS
>