SnipSnap Developing: Planning a fork

SnipSnap Developing: Planning a fork

Like the title is saying I'm planning to go for a fork.
There are various reasons for doing such move, but here are a few (and probably also the strongest ones):

1. The development is stopped;
2. The SVN is dead;
3. Stephan as announced is retirement from snipsnap;
4. SnipSnap as been my pet-project for more than a year;
5. I think I can do a good job.

Currently I have no name for the fork, snipsnapNG - where NG stands for Next Generation - just sounds too lame… Any suggestions for the name?

I've already started a SVN repository, the code is being released under GPL. Since it supports anonymous read access, anyone interested can download my snipsnap version from there. Besides all the modifications I've been mentioning in my posts, I felt like giving some goodies for this first SVN release, so the additional features are:

• Security Fix against XSS on the Search Macro
• Security Fix regarding config snip (which can be accessed via diff or version servlets by anyone)
• Integration of Digg It feature
• Integration of Del.icio.us feature
• Integration of RSS comments for each snip features
• Configurability of the last three points, the user can select if it's interested or not to have each feature.

The digg it, delicious and rss comment features can be now seen in my blog, at the upper right corner of each snip, or posts in case of displaying a weblog snip. To add or remove each one of them is so simple has toggle a feature on config snip to true or false.

I'm planning not only in deliver more features but also refactor some code that I've already seen. Not that I think Stephan and Leo didn't do things good, but mostly because I want things on my way.

Features to be implemented include:

• Configurable snapPreview integration
• Configurable meta-information
• Configurable Access Control for each snip
• Configurable secure login and register
• Better CATPCHA Support (that includes sound support)
• Many other, keep tuned to know about them.

If anyone has any suggestions to improve this version of snipsnap, please comment!