The Gardiner users group is now in Launchpad and the mailing list is active. Any discussion related to the design, implementation and use of Gardiner should take place there.
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I just pushed Gardiner trunk to Launchpad, and I’m going to push an experimental branch as well as soon as I’ve written down in this blog a few ideas I want to try out.
Gardiner is far from being ready for public consumption, but it could use some scrutiny for interested eyes. If you want to have a look, you will need bazaar 1.6.1 or later to checkout the code, a recent PHP 5.3 snapshot to run the code, and PHPUnit 3.3.4 to run the tests.
Go grab the code with bzr branch lp:gardiner!
I just registered the Gardiner Framework as a project in Launchpad and published a teaser page on the Gardiner Project website. This also involved some more non-code work, such as cooking a temporary logo for the project that will make do for the time being.
The code is also getting in shape for hackers to have a look at it (nothing that you can use right away, I’m sorry). I’m going to publish the trunk by November 15, and I might publish an experimental branch very soon. More details on this experimental branch, and the very first code samples, to follow soon.
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The hurdle of choosing a license for Gardiner is (almost) over. Gardiner will be released under the LGPLv3. What’s left to decide is whether to also allow for a second licensing option or not, but I expect that will be easier to sort out.
In the process of reviewing the various licenses, I discovered something that everybody already agrees on: there are way too many free/open source licenses around, and this creates complexities for everyone. My main guidance in the process was chapter 9 of Karl Fogel’s excellent book Producing Open Source Software. David Wheeler’s article Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else is also filled with interesting information and references.
At the end of the day, the tool that helped me turn whatever little knowledge I had absorbed into something actionable was John Cowan’s license selection wizard. If license options are giving you the headache, just use it!
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