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Re:Marcel the Shell by geophile on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:24PM (#37992973)
Hi, I’m the author of Marcel. If you like it and want to work on it, I can use volunteers, for developing features, debugging, doc, porting, improving the website, you name it.
Re:Marcel the Shell by greenreptar on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:33AM (#37994875)
Surely there is some copyright infringement here?
Re:Marcel the Shell by metabagel on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:20AM (#37995372)
You’re thinking trademark infringement. IANAL, but I wouldn’t worry about it. Worse comes to worst, you could rename it. That’s what Firefox did.
Re:Marcel the Shell by benatkin on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:37AM (#37995471)
Re:Marcel the Shell by vetinari on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:53AM (#37996431)
"Marcel" is a common male name in some parts of the world. That would make a trademark infringement claim somewhat difficult.
Re:Marcel the Shell by sebstefan on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:24AM (#37996196)
What's the other thing named Marcel?
Re:Marcel the Shell by fdgjgbdfhgb on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:25AM (#37996645)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [1], a recent Oscar-nominated film

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On...

Re:Marcel the Shell by kwhitefoot on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:41AM (#37997116)
That's in a completely different business. Trademarks generally do not cover all possible uses of a word, only the use of that word in the segment it was approved for.
Re:Marcel the Shell by sebstefan on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:21AM (#37997445)
Plus that one doesn't have shoes.
Re:Marcel the Shell by linsomniac on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:39AM (#37994891)
Can I ask what you are using for the docs?
Re:Marcel the Shell by geophile on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:41AM (#37999067)
For help documentation I wrote my own tool to format things the way I wanted for the console (e.g. colorized, adjusting to console width).

For the website, I'm using wix. I'm open to suggestions for using wix better, or choosing an alternative.

Re:Marcel the Shell by linsomniac on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:24PM (#38008794)
Oh, interesting, Wix wasn't even on my list for consideration. I like the look of it, but I also want to pull in some of my documentation from docstrings, possibly, so I think reStructuredText is a leading contender. That's what I'm getting ready to try setting up in my github workflow to see if I can get it to automatically format and publish the documentation to a github pages site.

I'm working on a not entirely dissimilar project (mine is focused more towards: fabric/ansible/cookiecutter type workflows, leaning on a lot of shell semantics. My workflows and hopefully soon documentation may be useful to you, I'd be happy to contribute them. I auto-build and publish releases to pypi. Project is: https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook

Re:Marcel the Shell by kampanosg on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:23AM (#37996188)
Hi! Happy to help/contribute if you need an extra pair of hands :)
Re:Marcel the Shell by geophile on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:40AM (#37999045)
Yes! Please send me email: jao at geophile dot com.