Re: [Radmind-devel] Cleaning up the radmind stuff

[Scott H. <st...@ma...>]

Ok, I am all for that.  I think I posted awhile ago about several different repositories.  I agree that no one is in charge and it is open to whomever wants to grab the power! :-)  Go James!  I have access to the SourceForge site as well but did not take charge of it.

AFAIK, the radmind.org belongs to U. Mich.  The whois data is mostly hidden, but the organization and the name servers seem to be U. Mich.  I would guess that the IT group there would want to stop paying for the domain.

Registrant Organization: University of Michigan
Registrant State/Province: MI
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: DNS2.ITD.UMICH.EDU
Name Server: DNS1.ITD.UMICH.EDU

I think GitHub has several versions as well, I think you are referring to the last one?  The first one may also be a useful resource with some fixes?
https://github.com/rsc-at-umich/radmind-1.15
https://github.com/brando9182/radmind
https://github.com/seansweda/radmind
https://github.com/abic/radmind
https://github.com/Radmind/radmind

I think I have a version that I unilaterally declared to be 1.15.1 to fix the long file name bug, fix the bug in groups and users for special files and implement the -t option that was some contributed code that was never merged.  Last winter break I modified the libsnet code to handle the changes to OpenSSL 1.10 as installed by fink so I could build the files on Mac OS 10.12.

I needed to merge this with older code on Mac OS 10.5 for backwards compatibility and for the old package manager to build the installation package for a universal binary but got stuck making the new OpenSSL run under the older OS.

I agree that just 2 lists should be sufficient.  Announcements go to the user list since it is low traffic.

I also am not a developer by profession but have some skills.  I also have some wishes for where Radmind goes in the future!

-Scott

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> On Jun 26, 2018, at 5:04 PM, James Reynolds <rey...@bi...> wrote:
> 
> I don't believe anyone is really in charge of radmind any more.  I don't want to see it go completely abandoned, so I'm want to clean up the radmind stuff a little bit.  Richard Glaser just gave me access to the Github project page.  I've contacted Patrick McNeal and he still has access to the SourceForge project page.  I don't want to just take over and start making changes so I thought I'd email the lists and get some ideas about what I want to do.  The problems I see are as follows.
> 
> * Different downloads on 3 websites: radmind.org, github.com, sourceforge.net.  I don't know if we can get access to radmind.org.  Someone must still be paying the bill to keep the domain though.  I think we should pick one and remove the other download links.  SourceForge for mail lists.  Github for source code, and if we can change radmind.org, maybe just redirect the whole thing to github.com.
> 
> * The radmind 1.14.1 source downloads on Github and sourceforge are different.  Github is probably newer and includes changes since 1.14.1 was released.
> 
> * The README instructions on github do not work (I've already submitted a pull request to update it for macOS 10.12).
> 
> * 4 mail lists: users, devel, announce, and commit.  Until this week devel hasn't been used for 2 years, commit for 4 years, and announce for 10 years.  I think we should combine them into 2 lists, users and devel, or maybe even 1 list.  As Hauke Fath said, the commit messages have to go somewhere.
> 
> I'm not a developer but have a few developer skills.  I'm learning github a little bit more and am willing to try to work on this stuff.  I have other pipe dreams but I think if people can just comment on what they would like to see done about the above issues and if there are other things they want addressed, then I'll see if I can get them fixed.
> 
> James
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