Subtext announcement/roadmap
Someone sent me a link to the announcement of and roadmap for Subtext, an open source fork of .Text. A few months ago, I commented on prior forking ruminations and I still think it's counter-productive. One of the comments I read over on the announcement post was "why not contribute to CS or dasBlog?" Exactly. dasBlog is open, it doesn't start with a period and if you think writing a sql provider for dasBlog is tough, I don't know how you can reasonably intend to ever accomplish everything on the roadmap.
That said Subtext is a good name and editing old posts and clearing tons of spam comments are things even I hate about the admin interface. The roadmap has some nice additions on it. I'm snickering about the NDoc item a little--that would be useful, I'm just not sure on the cost:benefit aspects. Reverting to single blog mode is a smart choice as it will greatly simplify configuration and installation, which was always the biggest support headache.
I'm conflicted about people are taking work that Scott and others did and starting their own project in it--it's the very nature of open source, that much I realize, but at the same time I really would personally only want to start a project from scratch or by being involved with the original founders.
I think I'm presumptively cynical about forking .Text into whatever; there are just so many new open source projects that would benefit the .NET community, I'm not sure if it really needs YABA.