[ewiki] Re: getting in touch

> * First of all: I had to guess the address of the mailing list, as it
> does not seem to be documented anywhere - if you read this, I obviously
> guessed correctly. Especially, it's not in the welcome message send by
> ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx - it would be nice to put it there. Also, I have
> not yet found an archive of this list - the only thing i found is
> http://www.freelists.org/list/ewiki, which is not very informative.

It is intentional that the mailing lists address is not written anywhere.
The list itself is open-post, meaning that one didn't even need to sign
up for writing here. But because that typically leads to lots of spam, I
decided to keep the address somewhat secret.
It is indeed noted somewhere on our site, but not on the MailingList
page, because the email protection plugin doesn't work there (it's a
spages plugin).

Now if it turns out that all makes it really too difficult to find, and the 
ecartis
messages are that unhelpful, I probably just disable the registration-free
posting; most people sign up anyhow before writing.

(And that this list has been totally spam free in the past is probably also
more because of a damn good filter running at freelists.org than due to
keeping the address secret [?])


>
> * The next thing is that i have written some plugins (or more correctly,
> i have modified existing plugins to fit my needs) and would now like to
> contribute them to the project. Where is the best place to show you my
> code? Here? Also, under what license would I have to put my code to
> contribute it? Putting it into the public domain is, strictly speakting,
> not possible under european law. And GPL ist too restrictive for you, right?

I don't think there are so many more problems with Public Domain than with
the GNU GPL. Actually to put something into the PD under German law, you
must obmit your name (read this somewhere). But then the authors rights and
intends are honored normally, so simply saying "I put this under Public
Domain" even should suffice here.

If we merged a GPL part into ewiki, that would turn our almost complete
PD code into GPL licensed source, just because of the 1% fraction - the
"viral" thing about the GPL (as it's always called). But because ewiki is
one of the very few non-GPL projects, and many people use it simply
because it is Public Domain, I think this is not a good idea.

So if you want to contribute, but fear that your code could be abused, then
please put it under the GNU LGPL ("Lesser GPL" or "Library GPL") instead.
This keeps your code free, while not imposing restrictions onto the rest of
ewiki.

That being said, I already had some conversations about this, and one GPL
script doesn't turn the rest into it for PHP/CGI scripts, because there is no
real "linking" in scripting languages. That's a thing the GPL 3 is going to 
address. So right now we _could_ integrate GPL code into our tarball. But
as your intend is to contribute some sort of extension, the best way is
probably to release it as LGPL - if that was ok enough for you?

> 
> * Although I managed to find out most things I needed by looking at the
> source, I still have some question about plugin hooks and especially
> internationalisation. Is this a good place to ask? Or would some
> wiki-page be better?
> 
> * My Last question is - is anyone reading this? Is this list intended
> for developers, or more as a help desk for users? How much traffic
> should I expect from this list?

There are around 30 people on this list. It is not very active, like Andy
said, like the project is not very active currently. Neither is dead, but
the project just became "mature" now, and there haven't been many
questions here lately.

It is a list for general support, help, development, announcements, and
whatnot. So feel completely free to bring some life into it.

mario

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