[schooltool-dev] wfmc roadmap?

[Tom Hoffman]

On 3/12/07, kit BLAKE <kitblake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/3/12, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Kit,
> >
> > I don't have any deep insight into who is working on wfmc, but can say
> > I consider it to have been a bad bet on my part.  I feel like I wasted
> > a substantial amount of developer time chasing wfmc.  I just tend to
> > geek out a bit on standards and try to use them whenever the
> > opportunity presents, but in this case, I don't see that there was any
> > real upside.
>
> That's an indictment :-)
>
> I've noticed that a lot of Zopistas consider wfmc too complex. If you
> had to make a choice today, is there something you would choose
> instead? I realize the answer might be KISS ;-)

Yes, I think the answer is we didn't really need a workflow engine.  I
mean, three years from now, we might need one, but not yet.

--Tom