From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T02:35:21+09:00
Subject: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer

Okay, okay, okay. Instiki does need a new maintainer. At least a 
temporary steward until I'm ready to resume that role. Are you it?

The kick: Instiki just surpassed 8,000 downloads on RubyForge, which 
makes it the most downloaded piece of software there if you don't count 
Ruby itself.

But Instiki has special needs, which is why I've been hesitant to call 
for a maintainer. See, Instiki needs to be and do less. But do it 
better.

So while all the pending patches are pretty cool in one aspect or 
another, they're mostly about adding stuff to Instiki.

Here's what I'd like a new Instiki maintainer to work on:

* Fix the bugs. There are quite a few. Especially render bugs.

* Switching from Marshal to YAML outputs. The biggest fear in Instiki 
is that something horrible goes wrong with the persisted data and all 
is lost in a big ball of Marshalled, binary mud. Having a humanly 
readable format would be very nice. This needs A LOT of testing, 
though.

* Image uploads... perhaps even file uploads. This one is really 
tricky, though. It's very easy to create a big honking thing. We need 
an Instiki approach to the problem. Bill Atkins and I already had a few 
thoughts on the subject.

Who's willing for glory and honor?
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