Re: [mdb-dev] [mdbtools-dev] Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

[Brian B. <br...@br...>]

I have repository on github that is rsync'ed from the sourceforge tree

gi...@gi...:brianb/mdbtools.git

I may abandon ship on the cvs and just go to that.

Brian

2010/6/16 Tim Retout <ti...@re...>:
> On 16 June 2010 13:10, Brian Bruns <br...@br...> wrote:
>> The project has been kind of dead.  I'm hoping to find some time to
>> get back to it real soon now.  In particular I'd be happy to look at
>> the patches and apply them to the tree.  Actually, I'd love to get out
>> of CVS and into something a little more modern such as git, truth be
>> told.
>
> [Adding Thomas Adam to CC.]
>
> Just last week, I've been talking to Thomas about exactly this issue.
> We'd like to set up a git repository and start to fix some of the more
> obvious bugs.  Give it another week and we probably will. :)  mdbtools
> is still a popular package (depended upon by openoffice.org-base).
>
> From the point of view of Debian, I've reached the limits of how many
> patches I can reasonably maintain on top of the latest upstream
> release.
>
> So, I guess it just needs someone to make the first move.
>
> --
> Tim Retout <ti...@re...>
>