------------------------------------- Scoop pre 0.6 by Rusty Foster README: $Revision: 1.7 $ $Date: 2000/09/15 13:36:00 $ $Author: bmetzler $ ------------------------------------- Scoop (which stands for "Scoop Is Not A Recursive Acronym", by the way) started out as an improved replacement for the Slash weblog system. It has since grown into a fairly full-featured content management/discussion engine. This tarball will function as a CVS checkout (as it is literally a tarball of exactly that). If it's much past the date above, try doing: $ cvs update from within the top scoop/ directory to get the freshest code, or run the get-scoop.sh script provided. It will create a scoop/ directory in the current working directory and grab the CVS code. Please note that it requires you have both the CVS utilities and SSH installed and available. ------------ The License: ------------ Scoop is licensed under the GNU GPL. You will find a copy of this license in the file named "LICENSE." ---------- To Install ---------- Read the file INSTALL in this directory. Lots more info and support is available at http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/, and the Sourceforge project at http://scoop.sourceforge.net/. We also hang out in #kuro5hin on irc.kuro5hin.org. Good luck! ------- Credits ------- The following is a listing of the developers who have directly contributed to the Scoop source code. Forgive me if you've been left out. Core Developers: Name #kuro5hin nick Eddress ---- -------------- ------- Rusty Foster rusty Brent Metzler bmetzler Chad Kreimendahl sallgeud Andrew Hurst hurstdog David Veatch dvicci Eric Ries eries Keith Smiley panner Dylan Griffiths Inoshiro * Contribution stats found at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=4901 * Other contributors listed below While the current state of the tables differs slightly, in some cases significantly, some table formats were inspired by slash 0.3, by Rob Malda (and many others). Thanks also to slashdot for inspiration and concepts, and for providing us with a motivation to write a system that isn't as bloated as theirs ;-) Many thanks to Brent Metzler for running scoop.kuro5hin.org and stepping up to maintain the open source project. Check out http://www.geeky.org/ :-) Thanks to John Havard, Head Geek at The Seven Sages Project (http://www.sevensages.org/) for suggesting the user creation scheme, and assuring me it would prevent story spamming. If it doesn't work, blame him. ;-) And thanks to John also for fixing my fscked-up zone file. Dylan Griffiths suggested a great many features, found some bugs, has helped keep me sane, and introduce me to Slackware. He also is responsible for some of the documentation, as well as attempting to improve the commenting within the code itself. Karsten Self provided a great lot of feedback and ideas, and pretty much designed the comment rating system. He has also gone way out of his way to promote Scoop everywhere. Chris Ainsworth has done heaps of graphics work for free, and deserves a big hand. Eveyone else at http://www.kuro5hin.org/ has also been a huge help in ferreting out bugs and "features" and in making this as "stable" as it is now, and for continuing to give me a standard to live up to. And thanks to everyone on slashdot.org, technocrat.net, and advogato.org who gave us good ideas and plans for the future.