Hi Rich,

Can't speak for Alexey, but I think he mentioned he hopes to get a bit
done over the holidays. I believe he's also looking for contributors
who can take over the project.

I think that Beta1 mostly works. There were a few minor issues, but it
should more or less work. I have no idea how much change would there
be between it and the next release though.

> Meanwhile, Pimki hasn't had any releases since 9/15.  Assaph, can
> you give us any idea about your release plans?  On 11/10, you said

Since Instiki development is done in spurts and since the packaging
format is yet to be determined - all of which is not really good for
Pimki - I have decided to build Pimki on top of KirbyBase[1] as a
backend. For this end I am writing a ActiveRecord adapter for it[2].
Once done (soon) I will take whatever is there in the Instiki trunk
(hopefully there will be a release soon) and rebuild Pimki on top of
it. After that the ties between Instiki and Pimki will be looser - I
will make sure that you can import webs exported by Instiki, the look
& feel will be rougly similar (I DO plan to borrow as much code :-),
but the functionality and underlying arch will be somewhat different.
I have tons of ideas and work for Pimki, but the backend hussles have
been slowing me down. You can take a look at Pimki2 (in CVS) for some
of the work - it's functional but in a zombie state until the backend
change is complete.

Instiki is a fine project, and I think it's a damn shame that it
peters out like this. Currently if you're after a lite-but-stable wiki
I2 & Soks are better, and if you're after a personal wiki Pimki is
better. Instiki falls in the grey area between, and with Alexey so
busy it doesn't get enough loving to keep it alive. I do not believe I
am the right person to maintain Instiki, but if there are interested
parties - please contact Alexey! (He won't bite, he's a nice - but
overworked - chap :-)


Cheers,
Assaph

[1] http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_ruby.html
[2] http://rubyforge.org/projects/ackbar

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