Using other FOSS

  • Resolved Tony G

    (@starbuck)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    David, I’m a member at WPMUDEV where they have a lot of great plugins and services. This year they retired some of their lower priority offerings, including Wiki Pro. That plugin is now in the public domain, the code is GPL. It includes a lot of features that would be great in a supported plugin – like Yada Wiki.

    I strongly encourage you to go through it and adopt as much as you can into Yada Wiki. The first instinct someone might have with something like this is that it’s ripping off code or ideas. But sharing code and ideas is what FOSS is all about. Since that code isn’t maintained anymore, it’s just sitting there being wasted when the feature set is a perfect match for Yada Wiki.

    With proper and respectful attribution I’m certain that you could adopt and curate the features there and eventually get a reference from that repo to the effect of “it doesn’t make any sense to use this plugin anymore since Yada Wiki has all of these features and more”.

    Good Luck

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  • Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Thank you for the information and link. It was good of them to put it out on GitHub in this manner. I’ll take a look at it.

    This is a great idea. I looked at that plugin but say they were retiring so decided on yada wiki. It does have many features what would be great addditions to yada wiki which IMHO is the best genuine wiki plugin there is. In particular if the front end features could be ported that would be huge.

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