Consider It Open

Added By Nick Campbell at 12:57 PM, 2008-09-04

TheAxiom Stacksource code has been opened. It was a fairly large undertaking to get the source out to all of you in a way that made sense and made it easy. Also, we didn't want to release the source withoutdocumentation.

So, we cobbled together a documentation tool based onJSDoc. This grabs methods within the Javascript context including the Java specific methods. This is extremely handy as we no longer have to use two tools for documentation. This means that you'll get more and better documentation as the projects progress.

Also, we had to get some licensing in place. This is important because we want you to be able to view and modify the source. Ultimately we'd like to include what you're working on in our codebase too. More heads are better than one.

In the same spirit that we provided the source to you, we'd like you to do for others. This is the reason we put the stack under theAGPL license. If you'd prefer to not reveal yoursecret sauce, we understand. Feel free tocontact usto discuss other arrangements.

One other thing we did was to create aforum systemon top of the stack. We like the phrase "eat your own dogfood". We're in the process of revamping parts of it as I type this, but it is available for use right now. Feel free to take it for a test drive, we're watching them so you can ask all the questions you'd like...unless you're a bot...then stay out.

Overall, this was a big deal for us. We wanted to give back to the community that gave and continues to give to us. Thanks, enjoy, and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.

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