How is the maintainer-ship of this project going? Are people still working on stuff here? Does the project need to be moved to a different platform to get more eyes?
I'm mostly concerned by the antigrain.com website which seems to have been squatted and not working.
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The main developer abandoned the project a long time ago, but the quality is still so good that it is worth preserving. Back in 2014, I carefully revised and merged all the free-floating forks of the BSD-licensed version 2.4 into one git repository: https://github.com/NNemec/antigrain
At that time, I fixed all compiler warnings and various issues to bring the library to a state where I could successfully use it in a commercial product. To my knowledge, that merge still is the highest-quality fork around. Lacking a practical use case, I have not touched is since then, though.
I don't think that "more eyes" is the key issue to be concerned with at the moment. More important at the moment is to define one central place of maintenance and make sure that all valuable contributions are collected in that spot. Rather than moving development, I would suggest keeping this sourceforge the central place, but converting it to Git to pull in all the work that has been done on github. Ideally use https://github.com/pelson/antigrain as basis.
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After having another close look, I must correct myself: Only now I noticed the changed done on the SVN repo here between 2014 and 2018 - seems to be a similar amount of changes to those that happened on github and never made their way back into the main subversion repo. I guess, it would be worth consolidating these changes.
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How is the maintainer-ship of this project going? Are people still working on stuff here? Does the project need to be moved to a different platform to get more eyes?
I'm mostly concerned by the antigrain.com website which seems to have been squatted and not working.
The main developer abandoned the project a long time ago, but the quality is still so good that it is worth preserving. Back in 2014, I carefully revised and merged all the free-floating forks of the BSD-licensed version 2.4 into one git repository: https://github.com/NNemec/antigrain
At that time, I fixed all compiler warnings and various issues to bring the library to a state where I could successfully use it in a commercial product. To my knowledge, that merge still is the highest-quality fork around. Lacking a practical use case, I have not touched is since then, though.
I don't think that "more eyes" is the key issue to be concerned with at the moment. More important at the moment is to define one central place of maintenance and make sure that all valuable contributions are collected in that spot. Rather than moving development, I would suggest keeping this sourceforge the central place, but converting it to Git to pull in all the work that has been done on github. Ideally use https://github.com/pelson/antigrain as basis.
After having another close look, I must correct myself: Only now I noticed the changed done on the SVN repo here between 2014 and 2018 - seems to be a similar amount of changes to those that happened on github and never made their way back into the main subversion repo. I guess, it would be worth consolidating these changes.