From: Assaph Mehr <assaph@...>
Date: 2006-06-15T13:20:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Wiki recommendations? (Reviving the old Instiki?)

> What were the issues with Madeleine which caused it to be replaced with AR?

Speaking from personal perspective, it's was a general instability
especially on Windows. I think the new madeleine releases aim to fix
those. There was also a very wierd bug, where zipped snapshot files -
generated with Ruby zlib bindings - sometimes could not be opened with
zlib based libraries, but will be openable with other zip utilities.
It was a rare hapenning and am not sure where the blame lies, but it
was annpying none the less.

Regardless of the above, I think the major drive was to make Instiki
more of a rails-app in general, somewhat scrificing the gem releases
until it's sorted out. However the project seems to have halted on new
features (maintainers busy like the rest of us I imagine), so this was
left as is.

Please do not take the above as bad critiques of those pieces of
software. As a maintainer of FOSS projects myself, I know how hard it
is to support them over time. The above two are both fine examples of
software in general.