Re: [Jamwiki-devel] JAMWiki End-of-Life

[Ryan H. <rya...@gm...>]

Hi Charles,

Ideally JAMWiki would continue on as it has for the past eight years, 
but the reality is that I haven't pushed a release in more than a year, 
and it's both dangerous and unfair to keep software in the wild that 
isn't being properly maintained.

I spent some time thinking about whether it made sense to focus 
significant effort on continuing the project, and while I would agree 
that there are advantages to having a Java wiki that is similar in 
features to Mediawiki, the truth is that Mediawiki has made great 
strides in ease-of-installation and other facets, and thus I think the 
future of JAMWiki would be limited at best.  If I had more time and 
motivation I would probably continue the project solely because I enjoy 
the development, but given time constraints and other factors I'm simply 
not up to the task.

As noted in the previous email, perhaps someone will choose to fork the 
code and continue the project, but for my part I think it's time to step 
away from what has been a very enjoyable and educational effort.  Thanks 
for your kind words about the project - if you should ever decide you 
want to continue development please let me know how I could help.

Ryan


On 10/14/2014 1:07 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote:
> Hello Ryan
>
> I guess that this was not an easy decision to take. I am still very fond
> of the JAMWiki software and still use it for my homepage
> (http://www.schmiedewerkstatt.ch). Unfortunately I am still not in the
> position to contribute and even less to take over. Apart from the
> contributions that I made my knowledge of the system as a whole is too
> small. Of course, if there will be somebody taking ownership I would be
> interested in keeping tuned. My situation may change in the future in
> terms of contribution time.
>
> MediaWiki is PHP and although quite mature a bit a question of taste, if
> one uses it or not. Confluence, as far as I could see in a quick search
> is commercial software. So in my case, it would not even make it into
> the narrow list of candidates for the choice of a Wiki software.
>
> I'd like to thank you anyway for all the effort that you have put into
> the project and I hope that everything is ok.
> I wish you a good time.
> Bye
> Charles
>
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> On 10/13/2014 06:01 PM, Ryan Holliday wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The last JAMWiki release occurred more than a year and a half ago (March
>> 2013), and at this point I think it is appropriate to announce the
>> end-of-life for the project.  It isn't right to continue a project when
>> updates and fixes aren't being released.  Additionally, the primary
>> purpose for JAMWiki when the project started nearly ten years ago was to
>> provide a good Java wiki with many of the features of Mediawiki, but
>> today Mediawiki is vastly easier to use and install, and Confluence
>> provides a Java wiki meets the needs of those who want a Java wiki.
>>
>> The code remains open source (LGPL), and is available to anyone who
>> wants to use it provided they follow the attribution requirements.  If
>> someone wants to take over ownership of the project we can discuss,
>> although if that happens it would probably be better to fork and adopt a
>> new name to avoid any confusion.  I'll leave the source repository
>> intact on Sourceforge, and will likely continue to host jamwiki.org for
>> a while so that documentation remains available, but at this point I do
>> not have any plans for future releases.
>>
>> Thank you to everyone who has used JAMWiki and helped with the project
>> over the years - I've learned a lot and had a lot of fun developing it.
>>
>> Ryan Holliday
>>
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