Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags

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

Frank,

If I understand you correctly, you are proposing that the source code no longer be hosted at SourceForge, which is what I would prefer. What are the reasons that you believe that SourceForge cannot provide the support necessary?

Darren

> On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:41 AM, Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Darren,
> 
> How are things going? Are you running into problems? If so, is there
> anything I can do to help you?
> 
> Regards,
> Frank
> 
> 
> 2014-11-19 17:24 GMT+01:00 Frank Fesevur <ff...@us...>:
>> 2014-11-19 7:15 GMT+01:00 Darren Hiebert <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
>> 
>> Great to hear from you!
>> 
>> The easiest way is to build it is to clone the github repo (git clone
>> https://github.com/fishman/ctags.git) and do the normal building
>> steps.
>> 
>> All the code in the SVN is already in the github repo. We think the
>> best way is to start/continue using git and store the repository at
>> github.
>> 
>> At the moment the repo is a personal repository of Reza Jelveh aka
>> "fishman". We want to convert that repository into an organization.
>> One of the advantages of organizations on github is that is gives you
>> more control over permissions and it is not tied to one person
>> anymore. And by converting the repo all the history already build is
>> preserved. Once it is converted, we use that git repository as the new
>> upstream repository.
>> 
>> I already created an organization named "exuberant-ctags"
>> https://github.com/exuberant-ctags
>> 
>> At this moment it is still empty, but I will set it up any time soon.
>> That means adding the collaborators of the current repo as owner or
>> developer and then move the repository. I want to add you as an owner
>> as well, but I need to know your github account name for that. Of
>> course, the original members of the sf-team can be added as well if
>> they are still interested in ctags.
>> 
>> After that I think we can prepare a release. Some cleanup (both code
>> and docs) has to done, but it is pretty stable code.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Frank
> 
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