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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 websi

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.

greenreptar 3y ago
Surely there is some copyright infringement here?
- metabagel 3y ago
  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.
  - benatkin 3y ago
    The likelihood of confusion is low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#Infringement:_likelihood_of_confusion_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#In...
  - vetinari 3y ago
    "Marcel" is a common male name in some parts of the world. That would make a trademark infringement claim somewhat difficult.
- sebstefan 3y ago
  What's the other thing named Marcel?
  - fdgjgbdfhgb 3y ago
    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [1], a recent Oscar-nominated film [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On_(2021_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On...
    - kwhitefoot 3y ago
      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.
      - sebstefan 3y ago
        Plus that one doesn't have shoes.
linsomniac 3y ago
Can I ask what you are using for the docs?
- geophile 3y ago
  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.
  - linsomniac 3y ago
    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 https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook
kampanosg 3y ago
Hi! Happy to help/contribute if you need an extra pair of hands :)
- geophile 3y ago
  Yes! Please send me email: jao at geophile dot com.

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.

greenreptar 3y ago

Surely there is some copyright infringement here?

metabagel 3y ago
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.
- benatkin 3y ago
  The likelihood of confusion is low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#Infringement:_likelihood_of_confusion_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#In...
- vetinari 3y ago
  "Marcel" is a common male name in some parts of the world. That would make a trademark infringement claim somewhat difficult.
sebstefan 3y ago
What's the other thing named Marcel?
- fdgjgbdfhgb 3y ago
  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [1], a recent Oscar-nominated film [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On_(2021_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_the_Shell_with_Shoes_On...
  - kwhitefoot 3y ago
    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.
    - sebstefan 3y ago
      Plus that one doesn't have shoes.

linsomniac 3y ago

Can I ask what you are using for the docs?

geophile 3y ago
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.
- linsomniac 3y ago
  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 https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook

kampanosg 3y ago

Hi! Happy to help/contribute if you need an extra pair of hands :)

geophile 3y ago
Yes! Please send me email: jao at geophile dot com.