Good luck with it, It will never be as mainstream as say , WordPress or MT

of course, now they’re moving to dv instead … but … well … pfft to VHS.

that is all

Hope it helps!

Andrew

From what is sounds like you didn’t have some part of PDO installed on your system which is a listed requirement for Habari (we require PHP 5.1 with PDO).

Since we are trying to push current technology to its limits, some of these hiccups are expected. Hopefully your next experience with Habari will be more pleasant!

Oh and I would disagree with your assesment of the health of an open source project. As long as there is one user using the code, and one developer faithfully working on it, then it is alive and well.

Cheers.

The you have internationally aclaimed, award-winning Joomla! to add in the mix with many years of community development behind their belt. How on earth will Habari survive?

The habari-svn group you linked is the read-only mailing list of Habari SVN commits. The subscriber count there merely says that 58 people are signed up to receive messages when new changes are committed. The habari-dev mailing list has 255 subscribers, and the habari-users discussion list has 222 subscribers. Again, we have eleven project members with commit privileges, and we’re looking to expand that with some regularity.

I don’t care if you hold a grudge against Habari: I’m not out to convert you or anyone else. I’m working on Habari to scratch my own itches, and to satisfy my own needs. I enjoy it, and I enjoy working with the others involved. If folks want to try out Habari, I’ll do what I can to support them. If no one else ever installs Habari, I’ll still keep working on it.

Your experiences with the installer are unfortunate. Yes, our goal is to provide a smooth, easy installation process. For most people so far, it has been just that. Software can be tricky, though: even the venerable WordPress is known to cause problems during installation.

Again, I’m not here to convert you. I really only commented originally to clear up the confusion about Google’s involvement.

the svn group I refer to is here http://groups.google.com/group/habari-svn

I’m not going to nitpick, but the install should have been simple

created a new MySql db, uploaded and chmodded the files and directories correctly and ran the install. It should not have been a difficult exercise to install, but I will say that the developer release is indeed early days and I’ll review it again once I have seen another release, preferrably RC1 or newer.

Scott, the reason why it may seem like I am harbouring a grudge against habari is because I have used many of your plugins in the past only to find out that you have abandoned them.

When you get used to something, it’s difficult to let go, especially seeing as you longer even support them.

Habari is still very much in development. It’s no surprise that people aren’t leaving WordPress — an established solution known to work for many people — for Habari. Habari doesn’t yet offer many of the things a lot of people want.

I’m not sure where you see 58 members on the “cvs team”… A) we use Subversion, not CVS, and B) the Habari project shows 13 committers (4 project owners, and 11 project members).

Yes, we’ve lost a little bit of steam in the last couple of months. Real life has gotten in the way of some of us. I’m sorry to hear that you gave up on Habari when you ran into trouble. A quick post the -user mailing list would likely have found the cause of the problem.

I haven’t looked into Habari too much, but it does look promising, albeit for a very specific target audience…