Misused discussion "Is the development of Textpattern at the end?"

GugUser · 2015-10-11 14:00:32

I don’t agree that the thread Is the development of Textpattern at the end?, commenced by me, is misused for other discussions and is therefore closed. The purpose of my thread was another and I beg you to respect it.

towndock · 2015-10-11 14:08:20

Perhaps your next thread can have new title.

GugUser · 2015-10-11 14:25:48

What’s the problem with the title?

philwareham · 2015-10-11 14:52:16

I think we’ve established that development isn’t at the end, and the previous topic had gone off-track. Therefore it was closed. Feel free to discuss further though if you wish.

michaelkpate · 2015-10-11 14:56:39

GugUser wrote #295596:

What’s the problem with the title?

I would recommend a more open ended question next time – the answer to “Is the development of Textpattern at the end?” is No. It doesn’t actually invite discussion.

Suggested Alternative Titles:

What can the community do to support the further development of Textpattern?

What are the strategic needs for Textpattern Development?

What is the biggest missing feature in Textpattern that you would like to see added?

~~I wouldn’t have closed the other thread but I fully support Destry’s choice to do so.~~

edit: I wouldn’t have closed the other thread but I fully support Phil’s choice to do so

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philwareham · 2015-10-11 15:14:28

I closed the last thread, not Destry.

hcgtv · 2015-10-11 16:41:39

philwareham wrote #295599:

I closed the last thread, not Destry.

Too many f-bombs from Destry and Gocom, yeah that can certainly derail a conversation.

GugUser, your original forum post was in September of 2014, I was not an active forum participant back then. I was drawn to your thread when Craft CMS was mentioned, so I gave my 2 cents.

For some reason, anybody can say what they want about the state of affairs except me. I hold a special censorship place among the moderators.

As for “Is the development of Textpattern at the end”, I would say no, as long as the code is Open Source, it will continue to be enhanced. The reason we’re all in here discussing Textpattern is that we haven’t found a replacement, if we had, we’d be gone. So it’s the TXP community that has kept it going for the most part, if this forum was dead, development would die off quickly.

But development is not the problem, it’s the presence, the look of Textpattern.com, the hard to use Resources site, the missing Themes site, and the Docs in transition.

So on top of getting 4.6 out the door, the 3 core devs also have to deal with the presence, tall duty, need help?

GugUser · 2015-10-11 21:06:52

philwareham wrote #295597:

I think we’ve established that development isn’t at the end, and the previous topic had gone off-track. Therefore it was closed. Feel free to discuss further though if you wish.

Actually I’m not discussing or asking if the development of Textpattern is the end or not. This was my question from more than a year ago, and I think it was at that time a legitimate question.

Now, according to some comments, it seems that my question was the reason to close the thread. Strange.

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towndock · 2015-10-11 21:18:04

It feels at this point like “When did you stop beating your wife?”

GugUser · 2015-10-11 22:19:42

towndock wrote #295607:

It feels at this point like “When did you stop beating your wife?”

Sorry, but I do not understand your argument, and the others above neither. Maybe you can read what happened before the other thread was closed. That has nothing to do with my person.

jakob · 2015-10-11 22:29:46

No, towndock wasn’t referring to you. It’s just an idiom that probably doesn’t translate well. Maybe this page helps.

uli · 2015-10-11 23:18:07

hcgtv wrote #295603:

For some reason, anybody can say what they want about the state of affairs except me. I hold a special censorship place among the moderators.

For my own part: The words I passworded in the other topic weren’t really “about the state of affairs”, Bert. (At least not about Textpattern’s affairs :)

hcgtv wrote #295591:

They weren’t curse words, you wouldn’t find them in a banned list

You’re such a doodzee lamb ;)

but Dick is in there.

OK, very educating, I know a new English four-letter word. Thanks, Pete & Bert.

towndock · 2015-10-12 00:53:21

My apologies GugUser – it is one of those things that may not translate well.

What I meant was this: A year and a half ago when you asked the question – it was valid. To start another thread with that in the title now, just seems disrespectful of what is going on. This weekend Textpattern devs (and others) met, and communicated here on the forum that in the coming week a post will provide info the Textpattern future road map. The devs works for free. There is development action going on. A more positive reaction may be helpful.

Meanwhile, when one visits the forum, they are greeted by a post title that suggests doom & gloom.

Hopefully the upcoming road map post will change a title to something like “Textpattern Development in 2015 & 2016”.

GugUser · 2015-10-12 01:33:23

jakob: I appreciate all your posts in this forum. They are always well-founded, detailed, friendly and helpful. Maybe I’m waisting time (what means “flogging a dead horse” from your link to the translation). I think I understand what has been written in this thread, and I think some write their own thing without read what it was about.

towndock: So I can continue with the reply to your post. Please read what I had written. Actually I have not asked related to the development of Textpattern, but I do not agree that “my” thread is used to argue or insulting.

I had tried to explain that. Hopefully it’s understandable, I think it is in my lines, even though I’m not a master in English. It seems to me we have a misunderstanding.

Fine, no more waisting of time.

michaelkpate · 2015-10-12 03:23:14

GugUser wrote #295610:

Sorry, but I do not understand your argument, and the others above neither. Maybe you can read what happened before the other thread was closed. That has nothing to do with my person.

GugUser, towndock was referring to something Wikipedia calls the Loaded question.

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