"Rob Church" <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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On 12/02/07, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)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
[SNIP]
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)