Re: [cobalt-developers] Sun is stopping Cobalt?

["Ryan Verner" <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:07:05 -0400, Zeffie wrote
> On the note of Ensim, Plesk, and cpanel..  I work with them all.. (I 
> don't want to however) and they all suck in their own ways... none 
> have even come close to touching cobalt... and in fact.. the update 
> systems are the worst I have ever seen...  They make the pkg format 
> look like the greatest thing since sliced bread...
> 
> The RaQ line is clearly still the best written hosting system in 
> it's price range..  and in the world of hosting for the small 
> bussiness it has and continues to set a standard that other 
> companies are still trying to achive...  Why they haven't is beyond me....

Completely 100% hear you.  I'm yet to see a solution, apart from the Cobalt, 
where the web interface seems logical.  The Cobalt's were designed 
brilliantly.

One of the first things I did before starting work on Qbalt was to write up 
some extensive documentation detailing general policies and concepts I wanted 
to keep; often through development, you lose focus, and you end up with some 
product with features all over the shop that might be cool, but they don't 
make sense.  I've taken many lessons from Cobalt; they did many, many things 
right (things wrong too, but conceptually, as you say, nothing else even 
comes close).

I'll be publishing these as well simultaneously when I release it; release 
strategies, development policies, easy to follow how-to's on creating your 
own Qbalt modules, things like that.

I'm also going to strongly encourage any companies wanting to develop Cobalt-
like products to become Qbalt developers; I've got no problem with them 
developing their own 'breed' of Qbalt, with their branding all over it, and 
the way it's been designed is that they can do this, yet not break too much 
compatibility with the main GPL Qbalt codebase (as to make any 
bugfixes/improvements they make in their version directly patchable).  
Hopefully this way we can all create a rock solid platform everybody loves 
and contributes to.

R

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