Working Out the Bugs

SAFARI 2 is fairly stable from your point of view, but the backend is still a bit of a mess due to two transitional factors and one other factor:

1. It still is recovering from the switch to MySQL from a plain text “flat file” database.
2. It still has the remnants of the old issue-based organizing structure.
3. I knew a lot less about Perl when I started writing thing thing in 1999 than I do now, six and a half years later.

I promised Ed a copy of SAFARI for his blog, and I have several other sites that need it as well, so I've been trying to hack away at the final bits of basic administration interface bugs. There are infrastructure problems still, but so long as I get it so that there is a stable database format and a usable article posting interface, I can worry about the rest even after I start doing multiple deployments of the code base.

Just a bit more work, I think. There are some features I'd like to add, but I'm trying to distinguish between “must have” features and “I want” features. I am also trying to distinguish between ones that will require reorganizing the system and ones that I can plan for now and easily “snap in” later.

Hopefully, I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.