Re: [xwiki-users] Converting from XWiki to TWiki

Paul, I am myself dismayed about your attitude and your lack of respect of Open Source developers. You might be one of these people that like Open Source much more because it's free and because you can dig into other's people knowledge and creations at will than because you can participate and help enhance and improve it. I'm really sorry that you lack of implication (although you have been following the users and developers list since you have got 7 of your questions answered without having help answer to any of the other's users questions) have made you not notive that despite what you think XWiki has made a lot of progress. You would have seen that there is an XWiki 0.9.1252 which has many improved features like: - TinyMCE based WYSIWYG editor compatible with the XWiki syntax done by a Google Summer of Code student - Backlinks support - Improved API with write-API and many new functions helping write web sites - A charting Wizard done by a Google Summer of Code student - Multi Wiki support like no other wiki - An XPath based Query language done by a Google Summe of Code student - A cluster mode contributed by TripAdvisor.com You would also have seen that a Google Summer of Code is in the works with: - Support JCR for storage with a migration path from hibernate database storage - A AJAX form editor - A new XWiki 1.0 skin implementing the Usability recommandations worked on last year - A P2P Replication protocol allowing to work Offline and run XWiki on multiple servers It's sad that you haven't seen that we are trying hard to build a long lasting Open Source Wiki able to tackle tomorrow's Wiki challenges. And this not only takes code, documentation, but also the ability to invest steadily in XWiki. I've personnally spent 2 years without any salary working on XWiki as I created my own company. Thanks to users and companies that better understand Open Source and our approach than you do, we now have been able to hire close to 10 people to work on XWiki and on projects based on XWiki. Close to 40 companies have trusted our services to ask us to help them build solutions on top of XWiki. Hundreds of companies are using XWiki for free. XWiki has been selected for France State funded research project on Collaboration on P2P and Mobility environements. Also it's funny that I've received the same day as your email congratulations and credits from the Sibelius-Academy in Finland which has been using XWiki for the Music History Web Site (http://muhi.siba.fi/ -> it's in Finnish). Apparently they have been able to tweak the XWiki look and feel better than you did. I'm mainly sorry for you that you don't realize that Open Source development means tons of hours of hard work shared with a community which of course is free to use it or to use something else. But I tend to believe that the minimum that users of Open Source software should have is respect for developers sharing their work with a community. I just hope that you will learn this while joining the TWiki community which I have a lot of respect for as I've been using and contributing to TWiki for 3 years before writing XWiki. We'll take the positive out of your nasty email, which I'm sure is due to frustration at not finding what you needed from XWiki (a free lunch ?). We'll try to learn from it to improve our documentation, developer guides (anybody wanting to help ?), our code quality and architecture. I realize that this email might sound a little aggressive towards you, but sometimes it's good to set things straight. Good luck for you in the future. I just hope you'll be a better user and contributor of TWiki. Ludovic Paul Dlug a écrit : -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic