Re: [eboard-devel] eboard fork focusing on refactoring and bug fixes

[Jordi T. <jor...@ya...>]

Hi all

I will be there for the translation to Catalan if change the GUI.
If it's needed.

Kind Regards
Jordi Tobella Torras


On 20/08/13 13:07, Stephane Laborde wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Le 20/08/2013 11:46, Nico Schottelius a écrit :
>> Hello cortexcorepl,
>>
>> I think you are right in terms of liveness of the project.
>>
>> I'll keep an eye on your fork & maybe contribute. There
>> is the long term bug when eboard does not redraw while
>> establishing a connection to fics and the other one that
>> it consumes 100% cpu when it loses the connection after
>> suspend.
>>
>> What would also be awesome if some of the FICS features
>> were made visible in the GUI (like profile editing).
> I do agree. I think also we miss tournaments GUI. It's not easy to join
> and play a tournament in FICS for newcomers, but it is often what chess
> players find to enjoy playing and meet other players.
>
> PlayChess (Chessbase) or Buho21 have very goog tournament GUI for instance.
>
>> That said, let the work begin!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nico
>>
>> p.s.: I do consider forking a good thing - it motivates the undead
>>         and in case original development has a rebirth, one can
>>         still join back the team.
>>
>> cortexcorepl-eboard [Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:07:01PM +0200]:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I have created a fork of eboard (from cvs) because upstream seems dead.
>>>
>>> The fork, which is called currently "eboard2013" on github, focuses on
>>> the following 3 aspects:
>>> 1. Refactoring:
>>> In my opinion, this must be done because currently it's rather hard to
>>> get to know eboard's code and the current state makes adding new futures harder.
>>>
>>> 2. Bug fixes: There some bugs in eboard which must be fixed.
>>> 3. New futures.
>>>
>>> The plan also involves to drop deprecated GTK symbols and replace
>>> them with the non-deprecated versions. While we are at it, some parts
>>> of the code should be rewritten to use C++11 futures.
>>>
>>> I am aware of other recent forks, but those seem dead too and/or focus
>>> on other aspects...
>>>
>>> If upstream at some point wants to resume development, I think ( some of
>>> ) the changes can be merged back without any difficulties.
>>>
>>> Everybody is welcome to submit pull requests/patches!
>>>
>>> https://github.com/cortexcorepl/eboard2013
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> cortexcorepl
>>>
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