[Slashcode-general] Jumping in here late ... Slashcode is Dead ...

[Marc G. F. <sc...@hu...>]

Started playing with Slashcode this week to setup a news site ... most 
impressed overall, but didn't clue in how ancient the code is that I'm 
using ... I should have figured somethign was 'funny' when the PostgreSQL 
code was alpha, considering that Slashdot ran production on it for awhile 
...

That said ... someone suggested a code fork, since apparently the 
developers out 'in-communicado'?

I read one person commenting on their company having done plugins (ie. the 
Geo / mapping stuff), so presumable there is *some* internals knowledge 
there ... ?

I run a hosting company, and already support both Horde and PostgreSQL ... 
providing resources to a third would be easy, if there were others that 
were interested ... ?

Even just taking the current code and modernizing it (Apache 2.2, MySQL 
5.x, Perl 5.8.9 ... I'd be interested in getting PostgreSQL support *out* 
of alpha myself) would be a huge improvement ...

Anyone interested enough to do more then just talk about it ... ? :)

Unless Slashcode is trademarked, we could fork / name it something similar 
... not too keen on SlashcodeTNG, but something along those lines?

Anyone?

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