[pmwiki-users] Why all this zapping?

[kjettil]

Neil Herber (nospam) wrote:
> On 2007-05-01 kjettil is rumoured to have said:
>> I'd propose that, similarly, the Cookbook recipes be organized in two 
>> sets: 1 - One set for recipes which have been tested and proved to be 
>> stable, reliable and secure, and therefore can be recommended for 
>> safe use by serious web site developers. 2 - One set for recipes 
>> under development and testing, and which may be released to the first 
>> set, when further testing has shown their stability, reliability and 
>> security. Discussions on this set should take place in pmwiki-devel. 
>
> I don't think this division is a realistic proposal, given the nature 
> of Cookbook recipes. Writing recipes is not a simple task, and writing 
> secure and stable ones is even more difficult. 
At second thought, you may be right; it would require a review 
committee, or something of that sort, to judge whether a recipe 
qualifies. The problem remains, though, unsolved.
> I also assume that for any recipe I use, the author has done the best 
> job they could to make it secure and stable (unless they explicity 
> label it as a beta of some sort). Whether I have confidence in that 
> assessment depends (for me) on how well the author's other 
> contributions have stood the test of time.
My assessment of ZAP is now clear - thanks to the contributions over the 
last 36 hours! But normally, it's a time consuming process to find out 
which ones are in the rough.

/kjettil