Activly maintain and improve my open-source projects

Well, I’ve recently decided that some of the projects I maintain or work on will be better served if someone with more time and interest were to take them over. To this end I’ve started a series of blog posts to find new maintainers. The first one is Free to a good Home: RWB.

Sometimes, letting go is the best thing you can do.

I’ve developed a framework for PHP5 (because I’m stuck with PHP until I can convince my uppers to move to Ruby! And learn how to deploy Rails apps!) called Canvas. (Hope you folks don’t mind me advertising! Hah.)

I am actively developing and maintaining it as it’s being used within my department for numerous projects. I’ve also been contacted by my first user! (Heck yes!) Should be interesting.

As my first open source project, this is really exciting. Thank goodness for the MIT license!

Which brings up a question: what license do you folks choose to release under?

I prefer MIT because it’s so liberal: I don’t want to hold my users back any, especially for commercial use, which I feel is so necessary for something like a web framework, or almost anything for the web.

Thoughts?

M.T.

Well, I don’t have time to take this mini project on, but maybe someone else would be interested. At my day job we’re looking for an extension to nagios (either in the core or as an add-on). I blogged about it here. If people are interested, I can post more details.

But not if the project is abandoned. I hope that I can be a good steward for all the little tools and scripts i publish.
My main project for 2005 will hopefully be http://www.hieraki.org which could have a bright future with the necessary labor