Re: [Wxformbuilder-devel] SourceForge

[Patrick G. <pa...@pa...>]

On 01.09.2016 17:01, Ryan Pusztai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very excited to see the interest in wxFormbuilder. I would love
> to have the development moved over to GitHub. I would be happy to
> start a project and add whoever would like to help the migration.
> SourceForge is not the best place for development anymore. I am a
> developer of wxFormbuilder, but I have moved to more web development
> so my role has changed to project management and would be open to new
> developers.
>
>     I've created that organization as a placeholder
>     (https://github.com/wxFormBuilder
>     <https://github.com/wxFormBuilder>), but I really hope the
>     wxWidgets devs say yes.
>
>  
> I would like to be added as the owner/administrator or the
> wxFormBuilder organization please (rjpcomputing). I can migrate the
> code to 2 projects: 1) wxFormBuilder 2) wxAddition Plugin project. Now
> if the wxWidgets devs say it is ok to join their GitHub organization
> that can change.
>
> Please realize that wxFormBuilder is worked on from time to time. It
> doesn't seem dead. I see a commit from 3 months ago. The project isn't
> good about releasing. We would love new developers. Please consider
> this an official call for more developers.
>
>     @Maintainers: If you need any help with migrating or fixing bugs,
>     feel free to ask. I like using wxFB and use it a lot, so I find it
>     sad, that nothing happens and development seems to have stopped. I
>     have no idea where to start contributing though. Maybe this would
>     be a good start? 
>
>
> We would love the help. Please let me know your GitHub username and I
> will add anyone willing to help. I don't think I will be able to help
> too much.
>
> We are also open to CMake, so please feel free to change that.
>
> Please let me know what the next steps would be.
>
I completely understand that.
However it's really sad to see so little development on wxFB as it's
arguably the best (free) RAD tool for wxWidgets.
So if we could breathe some new life into the project, I'd be happy to help.

It was the KiCAD developers who integrated CMake into wxFB.
However they seem to tend more and more to hand coding dialogs, because
they also thought wxFB to be (more or less) dead. [1]

I'll be contacting them to ask if it's okay with them to use their work
and port it back into the original repository as soon as it's on GitHub.
I hope we can start as soon as Jan adds you to the organization. My
GitHub username is patlkli.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg19729.html


Best regards,
Patrick