On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:46:47PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
Of course, MediaWiki does not *have* to compete in other markets. We're not in *competition* with anybody; I wholeheartedly welcome the existence of other wiki packages.
But since we do get used for other purposes, it is worth spending some time and effort to keep them in mind. We've done some things in the past for the 'small' market: the web installer wizard, replacing the fragile PHPTAL skin, merging Tom Gries' email notification patches, providing authentication hooks usable for LDAP and HTTP auth plugins, etc.
Paying some more attention can be good; among other things it'll encourage cleanup and modularization of existing code. :)
Can I just stand up for a minute and say what a wonderful attitude this is?
I think it's almost the perfect balance between "we do what we do and there's lots of other stuff available that does other stuff" and "but we're not going to go out of our way to make life *difficult* for those people in the middle".
And as one of those people in the middle, this is important to me. :-)
Cheers, -- jra