[FM Discuss] questions about place

[adam]

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 23:35 -0500, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
> Well, I think the issue is more along the lines of not having the desire 
> to open the source - lots of reasons for that, although it would seem 
> silly in this community ;)
> 
> I wasn't really discussing "whether", however, but "in what manner" the 
> software would be distributed.  I think that needs to be made clear in 
> planning.  It could be a little messy if people go to booki.cc looking 
> for the software and it's not there.  Or if it is there alongside the 
> booki service.  So, unless we'd want dev of the booki backend on the 
> same domain as collaboration on booki documents, this should probably be 
> addressed in the discussion of where and wherefore =)


booki-dev.flossmanuals.net is where it comes from. at the moment as a
git repository. later as a tar.gz with major releases increments. we did
talk about it as a .deb package but i dont know about this now since we
also made the decision early on to build the tool we want not the
tool-that-can-be-easily-installed. thats a question we resolved fast
because we want the tool in use fast for FM and because sometimes making
something easy to install involves too much compromise and too much work
in its self. this was particularly the position of Aco who has built
social software before and complex social software (TamTam). I follow
Acos lead on this and also, I understand and agree with the argument.

so i would say installing booki will be tricky but never-the-less it
will be possible. but we provide good docs when the time
comes...right? ;)

adam




> 
> JF
> 
> adam wrote:
> > im sorry but im not sure why anyone might believe that we would produce
> > software that wasnt free software...
> >
> > maybe thats why i didnt understand the question...
> >
> > adam
> >   
> >
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