Thread: [Goocanvas-devel] New tarball release
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From: Murray C. <mu...@mu...> - 2008-02-29 11:42:10
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Damon, could you make a new tarball release, please, so the recent fixes get out into the world? Is there any chance yet that you'd consider moving goocanvas into GNOME's svn (and using GNOME's ftp download for tarballs)? Then other people could help you more easily. -- mu...@mu... www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com |
From: Andrew C. <an...@op...> - 2008-03-04 10:21:07
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On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 22:36 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote: > > Is there any chance yet that you'd consider moving goocanvas into > > GNOME's svn (and using GNOME's ftp download for tarballs)? Then other > > people could help you more easily. > > Maybe if development picks up in future. But I'm only doing the odd > bug-fix at present so it doesn't really matter. (I don't really want to > add any major features now.) Maybe it would be a good idea to pass on the maintainership baton, then. Murray has been quite active; perhaps he would take it on? It's your gig, obviously, and no one knows it better than you, so if you ever return to working on goocanvas I'm sure you'd still be the leading contributor. But in the mean time your hard work isn't really being helped out in the wild by there not being an active maintainer of goocanvas. {shrug} I went through all this 2-3 years ago as java-gnome got progressively abandoned by the team of people who had been working on it. By the time I (quite reluctantly) picked up the maintainership the authors were long gone, and so there was no handover at all, and it took ages to get things like ftp.gnome.org upload access, control of the website, etc sorted out. The project suffered as a result of that neglect. I wouldn't wish that on goocanvas, and you having expressed a desire to disengage makes this a ripe time to consider how you can reduce the burden on yourself while helping keep the project alive. AfC London -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics is an operations and engineering consultancy focusing on IT strategy, organizational architecture, systems review, and effective procedures for change management. We actively carry out research and development in these areas on behalf of our clients, and enable successful use of open source in their mission critical enterprises, worldwide. http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Sydney New York Toronto London |
From: Murray C. <mu...@mu...> - 2008-03-04 12:23:01
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On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:21 +0000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 22:36 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote: > > > Is there any chance yet that you'd consider moving goocanvas into > > > GNOME's svn (and using GNOME's ftp download for tarballs)? Then other > > > people could help you more easily. > > > > Maybe if development picks up in future. But I'm only doing the odd > > bug-fix at present so it doesn't really matter. (I don't really want to > > add any major features now.) > > Maybe it would be a good idea to pass on the maintainership baton, then. > Murray has been quite active; perhaps he would take it on? I'm not quite ready for that, it seems. For instance, I tried and failed to do the table grid lines patch, then asked Armin to do it for me. I do think that we'd be more likely to get more people involved (and even maintaining) if it was using GNOME's svn and bugzilla. It's all rather well hidden now in the various freedesktop and (awful, widely hated) sourceforge stuff. goocanvas is still our best hope for a canvas so I'd like to keep it alive. People could even then work on branches to add new features or explore things. Right now they are forced to fork to do that, and that's not something that anyone likes doing. [snip] -- mu...@mu... www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com |