[Slashcode-general] SlashTNG, for lack of better suggestions ...

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

In order to get things moving forwarded, and based on what Rob stated in 
his email, here is the direction I'm proposing for those wishing to move 
forward ...

I have registered slashtng.{org,net,info,com,biz} so that there is little 
risk of someone else coming along and confusing things.

I'm setting up a virtual machine (I own my own hosting company) for 
slashtng.org that will have:

 	SlashCode for announcements / portal
 	MediaWiki for Documentation
 	phpBB3 for User Forums
 	Majordomo2 for mailing list discussions

Shane has set up the code on github, and, hopefully, will act as "the 
maintainer", since he obviously knows something about Git ...

I believe George's goal is improving documentation, especially as far as 
installations are concerned ...

My goals are a bit more far-reaching ... getting SlashTNG to support 
PostgreSQL for a backend (15 years with postgreSQL makes me kinda biased 
on useful backends), as well as modernizing the code (ie. Apache 2.2 vs 
1.x, newer perl modules, etc) ...

My experiences with OSS tend to be that you can either spend weeks 
discussing things until everyone gets bored and on ... or you can "just do 
it" ...

Personally ... "just do it" tends to get things moving faster ...

Any objections, speak up ... I'm just trying to push from a "what a cool 
idea" to "let's get working" ...

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