Hi all, after Anika's call[1] to maintain Chi's orphaned stuff a few months ago, I offered[2] myself as maintainer for the Artic[3] and Dokubook[4] template. But some things in my life have changed and I just can't get the needed initial work done right now. I feel uncomfortable with this fact but it does not change in the foreseeable future. And I simply can't take the responsibility for letting these great templates rot until I find the time to getting things done. Therefore I have to put the brakes on it before the template's maintenance status is getting worse. But let me explain: a) Both of Chi's templates are based on the default template. But instead of editing the "original" default template CSS files, the cascade is used to overwrite and adapt the original styles to the needs of the templates. Chi did this to keep things maintainable. But IMHO a switch from the default to the starter CSS base should be done ASAP. See [5] and [6] for details. b) A bigger change like described in a) probably triggers browser rendering side effects and therefore much cross-browser and cross-DokuWiki-plugin testing (at least for the popular ones) is needed. This is especially a problem because I don't have any running DokuWiki with these templates for every day usage right now (-> which is bad because this would bring synergistic effects. I would probably find most bugs by just using the templates). a) and b) together is just a too big chunk of initial work for me right now. Sorry for this #fail. :-( However. I would recommend to push the source code[7][8] to dokufreaks[9]. Then apply some simple corrections to remove some smaller issues (e.g. subscriptions) with the DokuWiki releases >= Anteater. This maybe gains enough time until someone comes and solves a) and/or b) as new maintainer. PS: Don't worry about the other templates maintained by me. Everything is fine. I just can't maintain *more* DokuWiki stuff responsibly + provide good user support. Especially if something was not developed by myself right from the beginning. [1]<//www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Chis-Legacy> [2]<//www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Chis-Legacy,1> [3]<http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:arctic> [4]<http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:dokubook> [5]<//www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Core-devs-I-need-some-info-to-keep-my-templates-maintainable> [6]<http://blog.andreas-haerter.com/2011/03/16/how-to-create-a-maintainable-dokuwiki-template> [7]<https://github.com/chimeric/dokuwiki-template-arctic> [8]<https://github.com/chimeric/dokuwiki-template-dokubook> [9]<https://github.com/dokufreaks/> -- Andreas <http://blog.andreas-haerter.com> O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org