Foswiki (briefly known as NextWiki) and TWiki

[Graham Perrin]

<http://foswiki.org/> presents Foswiki as 'The heir of TWiki'.

Concerning code, <http://twiki.org/> reaffirms:

> TWiki is GPLed software. The Perl CGI source code, templates and documentation is available for free.

However, the fork appears to be significant:

<http://foswiki.org/Community/WhatTheForkMeans>
<http://foswiki.org/Home/WhyThisFork>

<http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiHistory>
<http://twiki.net/>

As TWiki is used for Chandler Project and other OSAF wikis:

 * might the recent news impact in any way on plans for development of the wiki?

= Other references =

<http://www.diigo.com/annotated/ef2ce6f3a3c47b99af4cef64d8b5e790> highlights key points from an article describing the 'Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki'.

<http://foswiki.org/Community/NextWiki> recognises ownership of the NextWiki trademark.

[Graham Perrin]

At
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2008-December/0104
46.html>:

> multi-language, single-page ...  multi-lingual versions of content in Twiki

At
<http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2008-December/0104
47.html>:

> As TWiki is used for Chandler Project and other OSAF wikis:
>
>  * might the recent news impact in any way on plans for development of the
> wiki?

In recent months on chandler-users there have been various expressions
of interest re: translation.

Most recently, <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp2931809p2935136.html>:

> Packages with lots of security holes in the past are likely to have
> lots of security holes in the future.  TWiki is in the same category.

Is the long term plan to continue with TWiki?

My reason for asking: Plone could be much better suited to multi-lingual
content. (You may not think of Plone as a wiki, but it's easily
configured to behave comparably.)

Whilst a transition from TWiki to Plone may be non-trivial, the
long-term benefits could be great.

Thoughts?

Regards
Graham
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