Re: [KOS] Git Repository and other news

[James S. <jam...@gm...>]

I'm still subscribed. In fact, I had been wondering if anything was still
going on with this project. Thank you for the update.

On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Lawrence Sebald wrote:

> Its been a while since anyone's used this list, hasn't it? Anyway, just in
> case there are some people out there still interested in things going on
> with KOS that haven't found their way to IRC (#dreamcastdev on freenode), I
> wanted to send out a quick update email about what's been going on.
>
> First and foremost, after a discussion amongst those of us active on the
> IRC channel, we decided to migrate the source code repository from SVN to
> Git. The central repository is still hosted on Sourceforge, just in Git now
> instead of Subversion. As of right now, KallistiOS, dcload-ip, and
> dcload-serial have been migrated. We're still working out exactly how we're
> going to deal with kos-ports, so for the time being that will be staying in
> Subversion. All the other pieces in the SVN repo (slinkie, navi, tiki and
> the ps2 stuff) will likely stay there as well, unless someone wants to step
> up and maintain those pieces (I'd be happy to move them to Git if that is
> the case). The SVN repo isn't going anywhere, it just won't be updated any
> more for those things that have been moved to the Git repo.
>
> All commit mails still go to the cadcdev-svn-commits list, so if you're
> subscribed there, you should have seen the first few mails from Git the
> other day.
>
> Speaking of maintaining bits and pieces, is anyone interested in keeping
> around and maintaining the non-Dreamcast versions of KOS (gba, x86, ps2)?
> If not, they will probably be removed from the Git repo in the future. It
> doesn't really make much sense to keep them around if they aren't
> maintained and probably don't work anymore, in my eyes.
>
> With regard to KOS itself, I put up a roadmap on the KOS website some time
> ago for where I wanted to try to direct future development toward an
> eventual release (http://gamedev.allusion.net/softprj/kos/roadmap.php).
> As of now, most of the realistic things I had thought up for that roadmap
> have been taken care of, other than documentation and testing. Its been a
> long while coming, but its my opinion that we're to the point where we
> might want to start considering a full release for the first time in a long
> while. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else out there has any ideas of
> what should be worked on prior to a release. Also, in general, I'm
> interested to see who's still around on this list in the first place. ;-)
>
> Anyway, that's all I have for now, so I guess I'll cut it off here.
> - Lawrence
>
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