I moved this weblog to Svnwiki one year ago. Since then many things have been improved. Today Alejandro implemented a few new properties that allow you to control whether some links are shown in a file. Now you don't see some unneeded "Edit" links that were rendered in our weblogs.
Despite being open source, the SQLite code does not have many contributors. "I have an assistant, Dan Kennedy, an Australian living in Thailand, who contributes a lot of code," Hipp says. "He works for me, I pay him. There are some people at Google who have been contributing to the full text search capability. But Dan and I have done in excess of 99% of the code."
Some people have said that if Svnwiki had been programmed in Python or in another language they would contribute. It will be almost impossible to prove that they would contribute.
Svnwiki is not only (scheme) source code. You can contribute:
- Reporting bugs
- Installing it and improving the documentation
- Joining the mailing list and discussing improvements there
- Improve the CSS
- Improve the Javascript part
- Translate to a new human language
And I think that we could also raise some money to hire someone to do something for us (or at least to give some incentive). It would be nice if we could raise some money to sponsor a feature. To me, Debian packages are on top of the list. I might do something in that direction soon.
On the other hand it's OK if the community of a given program is not huge. You tend to maintain or to take care of what you use. So, the first step is becoming an user of the software. If you don't like it, it's OK to walk away.
We need more users and more contributors but not so desperately that we are willing to move to a bad language such as PHP :)
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