FYI
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Dashamir Hoxha <dashoho...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Bug#688738: Unfixed RC bug and unable to install updated package
> Date: 29 December 2012 11:27:51 PM GMT+08:00
> To: Jeremy Malcolm <jer...@malcolm.id.au>
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for letting me know.
> I think that it should be removed from Debian, because it is on a dead end.
> The framework used to build it is old and can be understood and used only
> by me. Which means that nobody can potentially help me for maintaining and
> improving it. Which means that it cannot be fixed and improved. And also
> nobody is using it anyway (not even me myself).
>
> Instead, I have been thinking about rewriting some parts of docbookwiki as
> Drupal modules. Drupal is also old and a bloated framework, but there are
> lots of developers using it, it is still being maintained and developed,
> it is modular, etc.
>
> One thing that can be imported from docbookwiki is the wiki syntax, which
> I find more powerful than the other wikis that I have seen (maybe I am
> biased).
> Another thing is the idea of generating and exporting documents in
> docbook format.
> Keeping the history of changes (revisions), permission control etc. maybe are
> not so important, or maybe Drupal has its own tools for managing them.
>
> Best regards,
> Dashamir
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