fixed some words in roadmap.rst

Author: evgenyfadeev

AUTHORS

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+==============================
+Contributors to Askbot Project
+==============================
+
+This is the list of contributors to the code of Askbot project.
+The list is probably incomplete, apologies for any omissions.
+Thanks for all your help
+
+Programming and documentation
+-----------------------------
+* Mike Chen & Sailing Cai - original authors of CNPROG forum
+* Evgeny Fadeev - founder of askbot
+* `Adolfo Fitoria <http://fitoria.net>`_
+* Andy Knotts
+* Benoit Lavine (with Windriver Software, Inc.)
+* Jeff Madynski
+* Andrei Mamoutkine
+* Ramiro Morales (with Machinalis)
+* `NoahY <https://github.com/NoahY>`_
+* `Gael Pasgrimaud <http://www.gawel.org/>`_ (bearstech)
+* Alex Robbins (celery support)
+* `Tomasz Szynalski <http://antimoon.com>`_
+
+Translations
+------------
+* Mike Chen, Sailing Cai, suyu8776 - Chinese
+* Bruno Sarlo, Adolfo Fitoria - Spanish
+* Evgeny Kalinin - Russian
+* Evgeny Fadeev - English
+* Oktay Yildiz, Onur Mat, Cemre - Turkish
+* Jérôme Blondon (bearstech) - French
+* Pekka Gaiser - German
+* Pekka Järvinen - Finnish
+* Adi Robian - Romanian
+* Dario Ghilardi, Federico Poloni - Italian
+

LICENSE

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-Copyright (C) 2009.  Chen Gang
+Askbot - Django Q&A forum application.
+Copyright (C) 2009. Chen Gang and Sailing Cai.
+2009-2011 Evgeny Fadeev and individual contributors of Askbot project (see AUTHORS).
+All rights reserved.
+
+LICENSE
+=======
 
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

MANIFEST.in

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 include ez_setup.py
 include tox.ini
 include LICENSE
+include AUTHORS
 recursive-include askbot *
 recursive-exclude askbot *.pyc
 recursive-exclude .git

askbot/doc/ROADMAP.rst

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+Intro
+=========
+ROADMAP aims to streamline activities of the Askbot open source project and
+to minimize ad-hoc approaches of "big-picture" level.
+
+Askbot is a Question and Answer system for the normal people!
+
+Basic principles of the project
+==================================
+
+We favor plain and minimalistic style of programming, but pay
+attention to detail - especially details of user experience.
+
+We try do develop using the following workflow:
+
+* specify problem that we try to solve
+* create requirements that will guarantee a solution, once met
+* dream up some implementation ideas (maybe even some sketches on the paper)
+* discuss and decide on the best one
+* write and test code
+
+The process doesn't have to be this formal all the time, but trying to stick
+to some subset of this almost always helps! 
+Especially it helps to iron out disagreements between
+individual programmers (which if you are one - you know are qute common).
+
+Ad-hoc programming - i.e. simply go and add code - is not really encouraged.
+This works fine in the one person team or when the team consists of 
+best friends, but is almost sure to fail in a heterogenous group.
+
+Architecture and Requirements
+=====================================
+Obviously Django and Python are pre-made choices - so this
+is not going to change any time soon. At this point all of
+the client side Javascript is written using jQuery library.
+
+Our basic principle is that Askbot should be a mashable Q&A component.
+Askbot is an application written in Python/Django. So it should be 
+distributable as a Django App alone, but can be deployed as a dedicated site
+with the script "askbot-setup", that also ships with askbot.
+
+If we develop a sub-system that can be used in the broader scope - 
+we package it as a separate django application (login system is one example).
+
+We will start using Google Closure library soon!
+
+Skins
+-----------
+Skins eventually must be upgrade-stable - that is people who created custom
+skins should not need to change anything if something changes in the code
+
+Admin interface
+-----------------------
+We use a forked application "livesettings" that ideally should be merged
+back to the original livesettings application.