Re: [Spong-users] Future of Spong

[Andrew R. <an...@et...>]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 09:41 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> > I've come back to Spong after a longish hiatus, since I've needed
>=20
> I haven't used Spong since the work I did on 2.6f and I am in the habit
> of deleting most list mail after reading but it occured to me afterwards
> that I have a client who could be using it.  Hence the request for the
> repost.

Ahhh...  :)

> [snip]
> > I've pulled the current CVS HEAD into a git repository and applied a
>=20
> I started moving all my projects to git from svn a few weeks ago.  I
> highly recommend it but I may find time to set up a svn mirror of
> Andrew's repository if there were sufficient demand.  It's something I
> may need to do for my client with some other code.

I personally wouldn't worry to much about svn, but that is just me...
Whenever I start doing work on any projects now, the first thing I do is
git-init (or import it if the project is small enough).

> [snip]
> > you'll be able to see that commit history].  At this stage I haven't
> > bothered submitting any new patches to SourceForge.  If you want to try
>=20
> Is there really any point using SourceForge?  The mail archive seems to
> end Dec 2006.  I hate all their web interface anyway.  It might be
> better to just start a new google group for the email.

Perhaps just for the bug tracking, but there are probably other better
options out there now.  The mailing list archives is a real pain.  It
made it almost impossible to find peoples email addresses for getting
the author email address in git correct...

> I can't remember who Steve Johnson appointed (was it you, Andrew ?) as
> replacement leader for spong.  Given that the SF project has gone silent
> and that git really encourages distributed development (see Linus'
> google video from May 2007) I would support a fork of the project to
> Andrew's git repository.  I'll set up a mirror as soon as I can get
> things going.

Not me, Alan Premselaar is the replacement leader (from an email to
spong-announce in July 2004).  However, I'm happy to look after the main
git repo, pulling in peoples changes (or applying patches).

> > PS. Interestingly enough I've discovered that the Spong 2.6 branch was
> > never merged back into HEAD.  I'll do that soonish in git to see if
> > anything has been lost.
>=20
> There is a debian package for 2.7.7 in both etch and sarge.  The latest
> version of Spong appears to be a 2.8.0 pre-release.  Still, it would be
> useful not to lose any previous contributions.  It would also be
> worthwhile looking at the debian patches (up to -19 by etch).

I use Debian, so I'm quite keen to see the packages in unstable updated
to current git HEAD (part of why I modified the Makefile to use
DESTDIR).  Unstable is up to -21, but it appears that most of those are
tweaks to the Debian packaging.

There are a handful of patches which are relevant, and should be added.
I won't be able to do that now, but I'll try and do that at some stage
over the next few days.

Cheers!

--=20
Andrew Ruthven
Wellington, New Zealand
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