[Corporate Sponsor needed] Refactor to modern standards

[splitbrain]

This plugin was originally written by me to handle simple mail forms only. During a research project in 2011 the plugin was enhanced to add the template mode. This was part of my day job at CosmoCode. Since then the plugin has been extended and modified a lot to fit individual customer requirements and special use cases. It has become one of the most important plugins in corporate contexts.

Unfortunately its age and history shows in the code. The plugin has many problems:

• low test coverage
• outdated coding style
• overly complex methods
• still uses the deprecated form mechanism (which will go away in the future)
• grown architecture that makes it hard to extend the plugin
• lacking documentation

In other words, this plugin needs some serious refactoring to make it future proof.

I estimate that a refactoring of the plugin (not adding any significant new features) will take about a week (40h) of work. I personally can not invest that much time into it.

So if your business relies on this plugin, please consider hiring CosmoCode to do this (or join the DokuWiki Business Plugin Partner Program).

[iainhallam]

Could we crowdfund the refactor? How much do you think it would cost, @splitbrain?

[splitbrain]

Cost would be about 5200 EUR. For hiring CosmoCode a single client is needed. Of course that client could crowdfund...

Edit: fixed the amount - I'm bad at math ;-)

[splitbrain]

For everyone interested in crowd funding this: an alternative would be to have your company join the DokuWiki Business Plugin Partner Program.