* Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
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Enrico is free to "start a forkoff" without the approval of the existing development team and without CVS access, after all MediaWiki is licensed under GPL. I'll do my best to make the main line of MediaWiki development outcompete it in terms of features, stability and performance.
Thats the right way.
Choosing which branch to use for Wikipedia could then be left up to the users and the Board of Trustees.
This is the correct way for wikipedia. Other mediawiki user will also decide on their own upon their needs.
I dont think that my fork will soon be suitable for wikipedia, since I'm doing some quite huge changes, most of them are only interesting for use in companies, but meaningless for the wikipedia community (i.e. access control, multiple sections, ...).
I'd also see phase4 as an development project for new, quite experimental features, which of course later may also be implemented in current mediawiki, i.e. XML export/import interface, etc.
cu