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Re: TikiWiki - CSM and Groupware

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About the forums, I think for most people using Tiki it's more important to have a genuinely integrated forum (same login, editing syntax, search, plugins, categories, tags, comment forms, groups, themes, etc.) than to have one with a best-in-class bells and whistles index.

About the features like "friends", Tiki doesn't have a single focus or a tightly controlled development plan as many projects do; at the core of the project is the idea that it embodies the "wiki way" in the development of its roadmap and its code. This means people can add a feature and as long as it's optional and doesn't break anything else, it pretty much can become a part of the software. The down side of this is that some things get started but then abandoned when the developer loses interest or whatever. The friends and user points features, etc., (and others like "breadcrumb") are in that category, started but not worked on until they became mature features. It's a lot harder to get somebody else to pick up the development of somebody else's orphaned feature, or even to dump it (since inevitably there will be vocal users who've been using it and want to keep it), than it was for somebody to start it. So I think that's the reason for some of the more questionable features. At least now their status is indicated on the Features Admin page so users can have realistic expectations.

On the bright side, aulawiki/workspaces is showing lots of promise to bring way more to Tiki in terms of social networking, etc., than these rather trivial and neglected features were capable of, so that's something to look forward to.

-- Gary

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