[Pythoncard-users] Pythoncard and future developements

[Nextime <ne...@ne...>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:51:47AM -0800, al...@se... wrote:
-SNIP-
> I'm not in favor of forking the project. If someone is interested in
> contributing they can simply be made a developer for the existing project.
> We can migrate the project to svn from cvs while still utilizing the
> services of SourceForge. Discussion of particular patch suggestions should
> be done on the pythoncard-devel mailing list.
-SNIP-

Generally speacking, i totally agree with you. Forking most times mean
generate confusion and separe developers of an unique project in many
parts, and it isn't good.

But in this case i don't see another solution. 15 days ago i've tryed to
contact the developers on the -devel ml asking about the state of the
project. Noone aswer to me. Same things happen to many other people
asking for the state of the project many times in the past few years.

Hey, read, i say "years"!.

Also, from 2004 to today there are only few commits in the CVS repo,
most of which are just very little bugfixes. And the latest commit have
more than 1 year.

In the mean time, many peoples on the mailing lists was trying to
contribute with patches, code, suggestions. Why none of those posts was
considered except very very very few ones and only some years ago by the
developers? I don't say that someone kick te patches coming from users
saying "hey, they are not well written" or "our policy can't accept
those functions". I can't see any answer or consideration at all.

The problem isn't sourceforge or CVS instead of SVN. And i totally agree
with you that continue the project where it is now shuld be a better
thing. But it seem that the developers:

 - aren't interested in accepting contributions
 - aren't interested in let pycard evolving
 - don't consider users questions about the state of the project

This is why i want to fork it. Why i need to get pieces from different
(many) web sites to have my pythoncard install "complete" as complete can be
today with all contributions?

I don't want to fork an active project. I'm forking a "dead" one.


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Franco Lanza
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