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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 website, you name it.

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Surely there is some copyright infringement here?

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.

The likelihood of confusion is low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law#In...

"Marcel" is a common male name in some parts of the world. That would make a trademark infringement claim somewhat difficult.

What's the other thing named Marcel?

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [1], a recent Oscar-nominated film

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

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.

Plus that one doesn't have shoes.

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

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

Can I ask what you are using for the docs?

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.

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

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