Re: [AVaRICE-user] Bug in AVaRICE 2.13

[Joerg W. <j...@ur...>]

As Marian Buschsieweke wrote:

> My point is: SourceForge.net is a platform that really scares me away from an
> open source project, no matter how cool it is. Other coders and potential
> contributors may feel the same way about it. Maybe with teahub.io a good
> alternative will (hopefully) emerge some day in the (hopefully) not too distant
> future. Maybe that is worth for AVaRICE to look into, when it becomes available?

Seriously, AVaRICE has bigger problems but its hosting platform or
indentation style (or VCS, in case anyone's asking for Git now ...).
Sourceforge hasn't been my decision, I merely inherited the project
that way, but for just distributing the software, it doesn't matter
much anyway which platform it is lying on.

So far, there are *zero* active developers, plus a number of things
that require a rewrite of larger portions of the code.  Namely, the
entire handling of the AtmelICE (and JTAGICE-3 in HID mode, as well as
all the embedded debuggers of the various Xplained boards) is just
alpha quality, and could be considered flakey at best.  This is way
more important than stylistic things (as important as they might be to
you personally), because it affects the core functionality of the tool
for the only existing current Atmel debugging hardware.

I don't have the time to do anything on it, sorry.  I can probably
merge the current patch (which is a trivial one), and I could also be
willing to just roll out a new release if needed, but that's it.

If there's anyone going to jump in, who wants to *seriously* (and
long-term) maintain AVaRICE, it would be their decision where to host
the project (or just keep it on SF.net).  They are then also free to
migrate to the VCS they feel most comfortable with, and to fix
stylistic issues.
-- 
cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)