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obus · Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 2

Where is he??? I hope he come's back soon and brings B2 version1.0 with him...
I need the subcategories function...

eadz · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject:

Mister44 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject:

It's already been forked. In several directions.

jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

Well, is anyone willing to step up and take charge of one of the forks then? I'd be willing to contribute to getting a new fork better-established, e.g. setting up forums and a nice homepage. I don't know enough php/mysql to do it myself, but I would be willing to participate.

Mister44 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

it's likely that the people who have forked their own version of the code -are- in control of them. If those things haven't been done, and those people haven't asked for help, maybe its because they don't want them done yet.

The forums here seem to work. Indi isn't likely to turn off Michel's hosting...

Maybe the right thing to do is to find the people who are working on variants and ask them directly if there is any assistance you can give?

jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

Yeah, I'm sure you're right about people being in charge of their own forks. What I'm saying is that right now there doesn't seem to be any centralized place (that I know of) where there is an active project being worked on and updated. If I'm wrong, please let me know where I could find one......Cafelog.com could easily serve this purpose again but it's just not being updated. And not to take away from Michael and this forum, they're great.....But from a pragmatic perspective, it's just kind of sad to see a great project like b2 sort of dying on the vine....

Mister44 · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 5:27 am Post subject:

I'll believe that this project is "dying on the vine" when I stop seeing a new user registered for the forums every time I come here. That discussion has been had repeatedly.

Can't find a centralized place? So make one... You're the guy who put up the poll about it. You appear to feel that it is a Good Thing. Be like Nike and Just Do It.

indiboi · Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 2

Nothing is dying on the vine. Authors of software, particularly freely available software, often need to take breaks away from their development work to focus on aspects of their lives that are ultimately more important. I certainly know this is true for me.

imeridian · Joined: 12 Feb 2002 Posts: 191

And I just realized I was posting under the wrong username, whoops.
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jimmyt · Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Texas

Whoa....MAybe "Dying on the vine" sounded a little harsh, but I still think that the project would benefit from active development...I'm not disparaging Michael or his reasons for not posting to the site at all. His reasons are his own, and I thank him profoundly for doing the work he has already done. I'm familiar with the process of free software development, and I'm aware that oftentimes the developers' personal lives (or their real jobs) come first. In any case, that isn't really the issue I'm concerned about.

The reason I put up the poll on the other thread is because I'm honestly interested in whether people think it would be necessary or even a good thing.... If people think it 's not necessary (like maybe indiboi, for example), then I probably don't want to Be Like Nike and Just Do It or whatever....I was just sensing some unhappiness from previous posters ......

Anyway. Maybe, maybe not. LAter dudes.

donncha · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Cork, Ireland

b2 isn't dying at all, although the forks are going in widely different directions.
These are the forks I know about:
http://blogs.linux.ie/ - b2++ - Smarty enabled, multiple blogs, hacks thrown in. Source available -> http://tidakada.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=13565#13565

http://wordpress.org/ - Wordpress - Web standards (xhtml maybe?) and enhancements, No release yet.

http://gigablog.gigablog.com/ - Gigablog - ?? No release yet AFAIK.

http://tidakada.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2734 - b3 - lots of ideas, no relase yet AFAIK.

eadz · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:52 am Post subject: Re: b2 forks

albert · Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 52

michel v come back to us
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MrIannnnnn · Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 1 Location: NYC

well it's been a while... it is now mid July. wonder if b2 will stick. I guess that I will have to dev on my own if it disappears.

I could use a good project to get my hands dirty in PHP.
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