Re: [Gerbv-devel] Revive gerbv development

[Stefan P. <sp...@ci...>]

Hello Violet!

This sounds awesome! I am the original developer of this whole thing. I 
have actually been pondering exactly this move for a couple of months, 
but I'm happy you beat me to it. I saw that you already have made great 
progress on GitHub like adding CI and a nice web page.

I think this is precisely the injection gerbv needs by starting a more 
open development and accepting changes easier and more broadly. When I 
stopped working on gerbv git was a glimpse in the eye of Linus Torvalds. 
But with all the infrastructure with GitHub et al hopefully makes it 
easier to run this project.

Considering all the tools available today there are probably many and 
great ways to improve the code base. For instance, I took pride in 
running valgrind now and then to avoid memory leaks. But as soon as I 
left a bunch of Python developers rewrote a lot of code because "it 
looked bad" and "didn't like the code" and thus created a lot of memory 
leaks.

But baby steps... I think this is a great step to at least being able to 
start accepting and incorporating all the patches that floats around out 
there.

Best regards,
/Stefan

On 2021-08-29 17:13, Violet Land via Gerbv-devel wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I’m an avid user of gerbv and have also integrated libgerbv into my 
> workflow. Unfortunately, as others on this mailing list have notices, 
> the development of this project has stalled.
> I therefore decided to create a gerbv GitHub organization [1] and 
> invite all interested parties to join. CI based on GitHub Actions is 
> already running and binaries for Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows are 
> published on https://gerbv.github.io/ <https://gerbv.github.io/>
> My next steps will be to apply bug fixes from SourceForge and the 
> Mailing list, which I can verify myself. My hope is to revive this 
> project and have pull requests from other developers.
> This is a friendly fork and I invite everybody, especially the 
> original developers to join :-)
> Kind regards
> ooxi
> [1] https://github.com/gerbv
>
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