"Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com wrote in message news:e92136380702120735q642054c7g336b4844900391f3@mail.gmail.com...
On 12/02/07, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
being, yes it is a wiki engine at its core, it is however used in many settings. There have been several requests for per-page access permissions. There have been implementations of this. They just did not make it into the MediaWiki SVN. This is a shame because as a consequence you have a fork. Forking is really unproductive. With some regularity
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If a corporate environment wishes to adapt software to its needs, and if it insists upon bastardising that software to act outside of its scope, then it is welcome do - you can do whatever the hell you like with MediaWiki, provided you stick to the terms of the licence agreement. What you can't do is force us to make changes that are fundamentally opposed to the overall direction of the progress.
So, out of interest, are you saying that even if somebody implemented this cleanly and completely and provided a fully tested patch against HEAD, it would still not be accepted to the main development branch?
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)