Support
Support and Training
You can get support and training directly from the library authors, with a guaranteed three-day response time.
Community help is available in the public forums. Until September 2009, there was only a mailing list (how to join), and the old dogs haven't left yet. You may search or browse the mailing list archives using the Gmane gateway (kudos to Pau Garcia i Quiles for setting this up).
To get up to speed with Wt and/or Wt::Dbo, you may also obtain training directly from the library authors.
Authors
The software was originally developed by Koen Deforche, and is currently maintained by Emweb bvba.
We are greateful to these projects from which we borrowed code:
- The built-in httpd is based on an example of the asio C++ library, developed by Christopher M. Kohlhoff. Boost Software License
- The RapidXML library by Marcin Kalicinski. Boost Software License
- The authentication module contains bcrypt and passwdqc by Solar Designer. Public domain.
Other independent contributors include: Richard Ulrich, Gaetano Mendola, Thomas Suckow, Hilary Cheng, Dmitriy Igrishin, Daniel Derr, Omer Katz, and Lukasz Matuszewski, and many others (see the Changelog).
Wiki
There is a community-run Wt Wiki with useful information, including installation notes for several Linux distributions.
Contributions
Development of Wt is sponsored by the following companies and organisations:
| Emweb bvba | Creators, official maintainers, and support |
| Eurofer | Sponsored the development of the charting library, WTreeView and hierachical item models. |
User contributions are welcomed, ranging from simple patches to widgets, widget sets, and core improvements.
However, because Wt is dual-licensed under an Open Source and commercial license, and to legally protect the code base of Wt as a whole by one entity without having to worry about the copyrights for different pieces, we require a copyright assignment from contributors to Emweb before accepting the contribution.
