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Software Developing: SnipSnap, SnipIt and SnipSnip

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Software Developing: SnipSnap, SnipIt and SnipSnip

It has been a while since I write something regarding

SnipSnap or SnipIt - readers interested in SnipIt should read

Software_Developing:_SnipSnap_and_Snip_It. Today I'll be writing about a new project called

SnipSnip.

As I already wrote - see

SnipSnap_Developing:_Planning_a_fork - SnipSnap development has ceased. Besides the announcement made in Stephen's personal blog a

public announcement in snipsnap.org was made.
Even though snipSnap users aren't as many as the ones in popular blog platforms such as

wordpress they all know the great potential SnipSnap has. That lead to some of the users - including me - suggesting that the development should be brought to the community. Among those users was Angelo Schneider (

aos at snipsnap) who after the announcement created a project on sourceforge called SnipSnip.

Currently SnipSnip, for what I know, only contains the latest snipsnap source code, which in my opinion is lacking some essential features for nowadays blogging. I've already sent an email to Angelo and posted on snipsnip's forum showing my interest in contributing with my fork to the project - yes I'm suggesting a merge. Until the moment I've not received any reply from the current snipsnip team.

Thinking in a possible merge leaves a question, what will happen to SnipIt. Most probably I'll keep developing in SnipSnip instead, unless there's some conflict of interests between the way I see SnipIt - a blog tool with wiki capabilities - and the way the snipsnip team sees their project.

I also take the chance to say that I've been doing a few more modifications in SnipIt code, mostly regarding integration with other web applications such as feedburner, google webmasters, google analytics and support for configure which social web sites (del.icio.us, digg, dzone, etc) are available in blog posts.

My contribution roadmap - in SnipIt or SnipSnip - is mostly described in my_snipsnap_fork_feature_list with the addition of a few other ideas, such as, the possibility of creating more than two portlets or having support for access control based on user groups besides user roles.

mrmoon, 348 days ago.

Being a SnipSnap user myself I too am aware of "the great potential SnipSnap has".

That said, I believe that one merged development group will make the best of that potential as I really doubt that the different groups' feature lists or ideas are that different.

skimmer, 347 days ago.

Great to hear! I was hoping someone with your knowledge would take the lead on this...

I had some time today and was hoping to work on enhancing the snipscale, but couldn't find a maven repository for snipsnap. Any chance there will be a maven setup? Or do you have any changes made on snipscale 2.0.2 already?

pabrantes, 346 days ago.

That said, I believe that one merged development group will make the best of that potential as I really doubt (...)
mrmoon

That's true, but you have to keep in mind that the bigger the team is the bigger in the entropy, specially when it's a geographically distributed team which happens in this case. But I think we'll be able to do a good job.

Great to hear! I was hoping someone with your knowledge would take the lead on this..
skimmer

Thank you very much! smiley

I had some time today and was hoping to work on enhancing the snipscale, but couldn't find a maven repository for snipsnap. Any chance there will be a maven setup? Or do you have any changes made on snipscale 2.0.2 already?
skimmer

I'm sorry but I don't know any maven repository for snipsnap. I'm also not maintaining one for my fork, currently all the build process is taken care with ant, although AdaHsu already suggested that a maven build should be created.

Regarding snipscale I haven't done any changes,because I still didn't find the time to integrate it in my fork (I've been working on other things first). But you're always welcomed to contribute!

enricod, 60 days ago.

Hi, I'm interested in snip snap, but I would like to understand the current status of the project … in the sourceforge forum of snipsnip is stated that the project has moved back to snipsnap, but I can't find any evidence of this in snipsnap site.

Is development going on or has it come to a complete stop?

Thanks a lot!

pabrantes, 24 days ago.

Hello Enrico,

First of all I'm really sorry for the delay on the reply but unfortunately due to some personal problems I've been away from the blog, actually away for too much time, but that's another story.

I've also took some extra time to answer you, because to be true I really didn't know the answer. After much thinking and talking with various people at the wikisym 2008 I think I came to the conclusion that there's no point in developing something alone and with no community, even though it has been a excellent, not to mention fun, experience it also has become sometimes rather what frustrating experience due to the lack of feedback and inertia of other developers that would say they would help.

If you're interested you can still checkout my latest snipsnap version at http://code.google.com/p/snipped-wiki/ I don't have all the modifications documented (shame on me) but you do have a list that tries to sum them all up, just check my_snipsnap_fork_feature_list

I'll be moving to other projects, probably XWiki, but I'm always available to still discuss things regarding snipsnap or help with problems.

enricod, 23 days ago.

Thanks pabrantes for the reply!

Don't worry for the delay, I really hope that the problems are happily solved. About the state of the project, the "no answer" was anyway an answer, so I imagined that the project was almost dead ...

I'm sorry about that, but I understand your frustration: I will have a look at the source code as you suggested, thanks again!

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