Re: Nabble is now open-source

Posted by GregChapman on Apr 16, 2019; 6:46am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-is-now-open-source-tp7603082p7603276.html

The trouble, at the moment, is that you have to be all of these:

• familiar with and committed to Nabble
• a coder
• familiar with Bitbucket

When the Nabble page at Bitbucket announces:

THERE ISN'T A README YET
A README file tells people where to start and how to contribute.

it shouts at me that there is no commitment from the existing team to develop Nabble, and it's more that the team has decided to put the project into a medically induced coma, under the care of Bitbucket nurses, and are waiting for others to develop a cure.

I fear that unless the current Nabble team actively promote Nabble's new status, no one with the necessary skills will ever encounter Nabble or feel encouraged to join the development team.

For my part, apart from Nabble, all the other features that I add to my sites are delivered through Softaculous. That service, which is integrated with my hosting account, already provides a dozen different forums, and scores of others application types which I can install and customise. Most of these are well documented and have an enthusiastic and active development team. Skilled coders are far more likely to join one of those than attempt to rescue Nabble.

My skills are limited to HTML and CSS which are peripheral to Nabble's development. I'll continue to provide what Nabble documentation I can through my GregHelp forum, but would not know how to start with platforms like Sourceforge, Github or Bitbucket. I need to be encouraged and welcomed in by a team who understand such things and can help a novice.