looking for shpaml maintainer
Steve Howell
I launched shpaml early last year and spent some time maintaining it, in terms
of applying patches from other folks, updating the website, and responding to
feature requests.
Recently, I haven't spent much time on it all, and that will continue going
forward.
I don't think I'm leaving too many loose ends on this. The project was always
kind of finite in nature. I always intended shpaml to be a small, simple
transformation on text that would always fit into a bigger development stack.
If anybody wants to maintain a reference version of shpaml, I invite you to
announce your intentions on this mailing list. The code is here:
https://bitbucket.org/showell/shpaml_website
The early adopters of the tool seem to fall into these two categories:
1) They happily use the core tool, perhaps with a small private hacks of their
own.
2) They have already extended shpaml way beyond the reference version, and, in
some cases, have published their results.
The code for shpaml is public domain. It was written in the U.S., and my
interpretation of the laws here is that putting software in the public domain
protects the freedom of the, um, public. So please don't feel encumbered by the
lack of a more popular free software license. The software is free. Use it
well, use it kindly.
Thanks,
Steve
Steve Howell
bitbucket--Andy and Shekhar. I hope it was not presumptuous. If either of you
guys don't want the responsibility, let me know and I can remove you, or you can
feel free to remove yourselves. If anybody else would like privileges, please
let me know. Ideally you have contributed a patch somewhere along the way, or
helped with the distro, but that's not essential.
The website for shpaml is hosted on webfaction under my personal account. I
don't have any immediate plans to take it down, but it's probably worth
mirroring somewhere. The code to build out the website is all under bitbucket,
and I seem to remember that it was pretty easy to set up. It's main
dependencies are python and django; I don't believe anything else is required to
make it run. Before pushing the website, there are a couple of pre-processing
steps listed in the notes here:
https://bitbucket.org/showell/shpaml_website/src/fb04ffce799e/todo.txt
I will continue to stay subscribed to this list as a moderator, but it would be
helpful if somebody else volunteered for admin privileges there. I've found
that I've gotten very, very little spam as the moderator, so you don't have to
worry about that.
