[pLog-svn] Roadmap/performance

[Christoph Feddersen]

Hi there,

we're currently evaluating Lifetype 1.02 and the HEAD of the 
SVN-Repository. Is there a roadmap/specification for the upcoming 1.1 
release? I'm not yet sure if we should wait for 1.1 to start our weblog 
service. What I know is that 1.1 has some performance improvements 
(memory usage and cache) as well as some kind of authentication module 
for third party authentication.

Our current system uses ubb.threads (http://www.ubbcentral.com) and 
patUser (http://www.php-tools.net) for authentication. So we'd like to 
create new plugin, similar to the phpBB one.

As this is only possible with 1.1, we'd prefer to stick to the 1.1 
branch if your release schedule - if there's any - matches with our time 
plans. We're looking forward to release this in the next 3-4 months.

We'd like to contribute our changes/modifications/enhancements back to 
the projects instead of maintaining a heavily modified version ourself. 
If you'd appreciate that, I'd like to discuss our feature requests with 
you. If we can agree on a specification and if we're able to implement 
them with your still limited knowledge of the code base, we'd to help you.

Our biggest concern is the performance and scalability of the software. 
Any input on this is really appreciated. We want to start with a small 
beta test group with about 15-25 users/blogs. Second phase would be to 
make this available to all our registered users (~17000). Depending on 
the popularity, we're expecting between 100-600 active blogs within the 
first three months.

Do you think that 1.0.2 can handle this and can you provide me some 
details about the hardware used for this kind of installation?

regards,
Christoph