Updates + How to deal with tweaked code

If you ever happen to recode parts of a plugin, WHICH WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE
TO DO (to match it better to your needs) - then there is always the risk of
losing your changes as soon as you upgrade and overwrite everything inside
of plugins/
Therefore it is recommended to create a subdirectory like "local/" where
you copy changed plugins into, then include() them from there instead of
the distributed default from plugins/. So you won't lose your changes and
enhancements if you upgrade to a newer version. You of course should then
check (after updates) if the newer version of a plugin contained
enhancements you'd like to merge with your cutomized version of the earlier
plugin incarnation.

For the main "ewiki.php" script, things are of course more difficult, as
you will probably always overwrite it when you update your installation.
Best approach is to keep a NOTES file, where you store your patches for
later reinclusion with newer releases, or even to keep always a second
copy of your tweaked "ewiki.php". Much better was of course to send your
changes to the ewiki -dev people so they could merge them into the CVS,
so everybody could enjoy your ideas.

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You cannot modify the README.plugins file, but anyhow any ideas or suggestion should as usually get filed on BugReports, UserSuggestions or even better the README.plugins.Discussion.