Re: [Ctags-devel] Future of ctags

[Frank F. <ff...@us...>]

Hi Darren,

Is there anything we can do to help you? Any questions we can answer?
Problems we can solve?

If you are still in doubt about git and GitHub, please read these
blogposts by the .NET team of Microsoft. MS has integrated git in
Visual Studio quite nicely IMHO (Yes, the idea of Linus Torvalds -
maybe even code he has written - is used a MS product), they are
active contributing to the development of libgit2 and MS is moving at
least some of their open source project from their own CodePlex
platform to GitHub, simply because that is where the community is.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbteam/archive/2015/01/10/we-re-moving-to-github.aspx

And see how your project has been revived at GitHub. An active
community has grown there. This week an quite detailed issue and a
pull request were submitted by two new people. People are finding
ctags at github and willing to contribute.

And we really want to move forward, together with you! We'll continue
to use Sourceforge for the webhosting, the mailing list and probably
as the download platform, but move the main code repo and issue
tracker to the GitHub organization. Then fix some last known bugs,
update the documentation including the man page and prepare for the
release of exuberant ctags 6.0

Kind regards,
Frank


2014-12-19 6:23 GMT+01:00 Darren Hiebert <Da...@da...>:
> 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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