Re: [Wxformbuilder-devel] SourceForge

[Ryan P. <rpu...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have wxFormBuilder repo (https://github.com/wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder)
ready to go.

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Regards,
Ryan

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Patrick Geltinger <pa...@pa...>
wrote:

> 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), 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
>
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