Re: [elilo-discuss] Please switch to GIT (or another DVCS) so that it is easy to contribute to ELIL

Hi Keshav,

thanks for your note.
>Hi, 
>    Can you guys please switch from CVS to GIT (or another DVCS) so
>that it is easy for users to track development of ELILO. Currently it
>is difficult to track using CVS. Thanks in advance.
GIT is great (and intended) for really large projects with 100's of 
contributors. As elilo is neither of those, and that status wont change,
I dont see the benefits warrant the time and effort. There is nothing 
that prevents you from pulling the source into your own local git 
repository and working on it within git and sending patches for 
consideration and elilo will stay on sourceforge. That being said, I 
hear you, I work with git for the kernel and Ive thought about switching
this source over to git now and then. Git is superior to CVS so I'll 
consider it again. you are the first to raise a complaint. no really.


>Off-note: Is ELILO still under active development? Because there seems
>to be no update after v3.16 which was released in March 2013 (8 months
>ago). Even if it is no longer actively maintained, providing the
>sources via GIT will allow contributors to fork the code and maintain
>it in github/gitorious/bitbucket etc..
Elilo is still actively maintained solely by me but no longer in active
development. Elilo was designed in the early 2000's for EFI and Itanium,
thats why it exists. As neither of those are very relevant any more It 
is legacy code at the end of its life cycle naturally. Im really not 
accepting new features or new feature requests. New releases are for 
major bug fixes for people that just cant live without elilo and
thats about it and I have no bugs waiting to release. 

New bootloader efforts and contributions should rightfully go to Grub2.
It is in active development, has many active contributors and is
accepting new features and it supports UEFI and secure boot now and is 
finally fairly well positioned to fulfill its original intention of 
being the "GRand Unified Bootloader". It could be so if it supported 
network booting and really if elilo didnt exist anymore Im sure that 
somebody wouldve contributed the feature by now, most likely from a
cloud team.

>With Best Regards, 
>Keshav
And to you as well,
Jason