Re: [wxCode-users] Empty components, unmaintained components, CVS info, shell/website access

[PGridDev <pgr...@ya...>]

Hi Ulrich, and thanks again for your recent work for wxCode.

Of course empty components make little sense, but I would not delete outdated ones --always had a hard time throwing old things away! To help users sort obsolete code from maintained one, we could:
   - introduce an option to not display them in the 'component search' of the website
   - use some CSS markup or a special field in the component list to issue a warning
The criteria for obsolescence could be for instance: (wxWidget version < 2.8) || (no maintainer)

I do not understand the reason for the shell/website access restrictions, it makes your job harder, but was there an issue ? At any rate I hope I still have access  :-)

Cheers,
Ronan


On 16/02/2011 00:44, Ulrich Telle wrote:
> Since I received some complaints about the current state of wxCode I
> started to inspect the components hosted by wxCode.
>
> All in all there are 91 components listed in the wxCode database.
>
> I detected 6 *empty* components for which never code was being uploaded:
>
> wxCoolBar           (4 years)
> wxMemoryMappedFile  (4 years)
> wxUML               (8 months)
> wxAudio             (5 years)
> wxBetterDialog      (6 years)
> wxDom               (5 years)
>
> If noone objects I'm going to delete those "components".
>
> Then there are currently 22 officially unmaintained components. Several
> of them are in fact outdated, i.e. last supported wxWidgets version 2.4.
> IMHO several of them clutter wxCode without being of pratical use anymore.
>
> At last there are quite a few (about 40 to be precise) components which
> don't seem to be actively maintained anymore as the highest supported
> wxWidgets version stated in their description is 2.4 or 2.6. From my
> point of view it's understandable that several visitors of wxCode feel
> disappointed.
>
> What should we do with these components? I'm open to suggestions.
>
> CVS update: In the meantime I set the wxCode CVS to read-only access. 5
> of 20 maintainers of prior CVS hosted components gave mainly positive
> feedback.
>
> Additonally I restricted shell and website access to those maintainers
> which actively upload for example the documentation of their components.
> Feel free to contact me in case website access needs to be restored.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ulrich