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thomasgplhost · 07-05-2008, 03:24 PM

25 persons? That must be a JOKE !!!

I have been spending more than 6 years writing our open source control panel (my freshmeat project shows 6 years and 3 months now), our project must be the most active open source web hosting panel at the moment, and on all this time, we are only 3 persons actively working on the code. Mainly, it's myself only that writes in it.

25 persons working on the same control panel source code is just a dream, you will NEVER achieve it.

More over, rather than starting all from scratch, like so many people did, why don't you pickup your favorite project, and try to contribute in it? I'm not even talking about our project (you might not like it, it's your choice), but there's a big collection of projects already started. Why don't you join any of them? I'm sure that the authors would be so happy to receive contributions. We do receive quite often some help (like recently: mail alias group, or the webmoney payment gateway), and we are more than happy to integrate them. I'm sure it's same for all the open source panels!

Also, in how many years exactly do you feel like it's going to be ready? If you feel like it's going to be ready within 6 months, then you are as well mistaking A LOT. Such project take YEARS, and I'm not even talking about inclusion in mainline Unix distribution (after nearly 7 years, only now, we hope that our project will reach the next Debian stable (Lenny) when its out (announced for next September).

Why do I always see the same post about "hey, I'm starting, everything is shit, I will beat them all" (I'm not talking about you in this case), and so few contributors?

Also, saying "it's going to be like plesk and cpanel" makes, IMHO, no sense at all. If it's the same, why build it then? Don't you think your product should have something that the others don't have?

I hope my post will help (my intention is not at all to look you down, don't mistake on that),

Thomas Goirand