>Hell, kirtaner managed it despite the fact he himself acknowleged he knew nothing about perl.

Yup, and now I'm so pro I do web development professionally! Let that be a lesson kids, if you want something done, learn it yourself. Don't rely on patches from anonymous contributors. In the process I ended up learning a slew of languages (Our report system is an AJAX Java servlet hooked up to IRC, templating built around PHP, etc) and it was just a lot of fun, really.

Not only will you learn how to do this shit yourself, your users will love you just that much more because you're able to improve things yourself. For them.

Also, Taimaba (our Wakaba fork) is closed source and very little of the original code remains, but I can answer minor questions should they pop up. Major recent changes eliminated config.pl (pushed into the DB and a board manifest added, etc) and just about everything involving per-board file editing. Fun.