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

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

Just as a follow up, I've email'd the three developers / maintainers of 
Slashcode itself to see if there is some way of handing things off to a 
new crew ... there is just soooooo much in place now, and the project name 
is a known quantity, that the idea of forking and rebranding sounds like 
such a waste of history if we can somehow just revive what is there ...

Will let y'all know if / what I hear back ... *cross fingers*

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> 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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