I (and current 5 other people) are planning on writing an API for wiki[pedia] in Python, and I was wondering if I could enlist anyone on this list's help in getting the project off of the ground? First of all, I would like to request developer access for myself personally on the sourceforge project (my username is mdbecker). I would like to get more intimate with the code, and possibly contribute to it in the near future. Secondly, I was wondering if one of the current sourceforge developers could make this a sub-project, or help me make it a separate project? Also, I would like to know if anyone would like to join the project. We will be starting by programming some simple scripts to automate some tasks (such as greeting new users.) Once we feel comfortable with interacting with the wiki through scripts, we will outline the API, and start work on it. Additionally, LDC offered in the past the use of a test server. Could he, or someone else who is in the know, inform me as to how to use that machine? Since I don't expect all of the developers to have access to a UNIX system (which will probably be our primary dev env), we will also be looking for a place to actually test run out scripts. I hear sourceforge has "computing farms." Is it hard to get access to these? Are they UNIX systems?
Thanks for your help
-- Michael Becker
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