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Forking DPS on GitHub

Lex Li
2012-05-13
2013-04-24
  • Lex Li

    Lex Li - 2012-05-13

    As this project is quite critical for my open source projects, I forked DPS a long time ago (https://github.com/lextm/sharpsnmplib/tree/master/WinFormsUI) and now am going to host a fork explicitly at

    http://github.com/lextm/dockpanelsuite

    What I have planned so far are,

    1. Test out available patches and merge them into this fork.
    2. Prepare a new release with all the fixes I can collect.
    3. Publish DockPanel via NuGet (to support .NET 2.*/3.*/4.* and Mono).

    I am not be able to fix all issues (as I am not experienced in WinForms custom control development), but I would like to use  my experience on open source project management to make DPS easier to be found/used/deployed.

    Let me know if you have any patch to share. (You can fork it on GitHub, add the patch, and then send me a pull request.)

    Regards,

    Lex Li
    http://lextm.com

     
  • roken

    roken - 2012-05-14

    This is great, I had planned to the do very same thing (as mentioned in a recent post).

    I think this should be hosted in an github organization rather than in your own account so that we don't end up in the same situation we're in now should you decide to abandon this project in a year.  I have started the organization on github and added you as an admin:  https://github.com/dockpanelsuite

     
  • Olivier DALET

    Olivier DALET - 2012-05-14

    Great news, Started following dockpanelsuite. Waiting for trunk to be filled now ;)

     
  • Lex Li

    Lex Li - 2012-05-14

    I agree that using an organization is better, so I just removed the empty trunk and transferred the fork from my account to this new org.

    I never try out org yet, so need some time to warm up. Will try to submit Mono patch and NuGet packaging this weekend. We might further discuss how to set up branching rules via email.

    Regards,

    Lex

     
  • Lex Li

    Lex Li - 2012-05-19

    Just a quick update on the new fork,

    * The fork has been moved to https://github.com/dockpanelsuite/dockpanelsuite.
    * I wrote a summary on this project and recommendation on how to participate on the new fork, http://www.lextm.com/2012/05/call-to-community-dockpanel-suite.html. These are my initial ideas, and we can revise it based on feedbacks and finally publish it as a Wiki page of the new fork.
    * Several new change sets are already available on the new fork (Mono patch and so on). Please test them out.

    Lex

     

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