Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags

[Darren H. <dhi...@us...>]

Hello Frank,

I am here and ready to talk about making this happen. I need a few days to come up to date on the links you posted, and get myself back in shape for building a release. How do you propose merging? Merging the changes in the github back into the Subversion repository on SourceForge?

Darren

> On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:44 PM, Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...> wrote:
> 
> Dear Darren,
> 
> We know you are going through a tough time in your life and we fully
> understand that ctags is not the top priority on your list.
> Nevertheless we hope you have the time to discuss the future of this
> project with us.
> 
> At this moment not much is happening in the official exuberant ctags
> project. Very few SVN check-ins, little traffic on the mailing list.
> The project appears to have stalled. But all the GNU/Linux
> distributions mention this project as upstream. Exuberant ctags is
> still a strong name!
> 
> A couple of developers, most of them subscribed to this list, want to
> keep the development of ctags alive. Since we don't have access to the
> SVN we decided to contribute to the most active repository on github
> https://github.com/fishman/ctags This started as a simple personal
> fork of the SVN repo (including all the history) but has grown heavily
> over the last couple of months. We believe a lot of good things are
> being done in this repository and think all the work done justifies a
> the release of ctags v6.0. Obviously the repo is kept up-to-date with
> the current SVN. No work is lost.
> 
> As a next step we would like to create a github organization and
> convert the personal repository into the new official upstream
> repository. We gladly add you as admin of that organization. This way
> everything that has been going on in this repo is saved. After that
> the final work can be done to prepare the release.
> 
> I am writing on behalf of the developers at "fishman". We really hope
> you have time to discuss this with us. Please know that all we want is
> to keep *this* project alive, but to accomplish that we need your
> help!
> 
> To see the most important changes we created a changelog:
> https://github.com/fishman/ctags/blob/master/docs/f-news.rst
> We also kept track of the issues mentioned here and in other places
> that we addressed:
> https://github.com/fishman/ctags/blob/master/docs/f-tracking.rst
> 
> Kind regards,
> Frank Fesevur