On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:33:12PM +0200, Matthias Taube wrote: > > I found some hints to Status: Fixed 1.3.1, but I was wondering if there > is still development on 1.3.1.
Development pretty much stopped. I'm hosting the site and keeping the mailing list calm, which is easy because everyone is so well behaved. When I first took this on after JW died, I had hoped to improve dirvish, but as Richard says, it does the job that it needs to do, and the rsync underneath just keeps getting better. There was a brief flurry of patches (and patches of patches) during the first year, but the annoying dirvish bugs seem to be fixed, leaving the annoying rsync bugs and the very annoying "that's not the way I would do that!" Improvements are difficult when the software is "good enough" and is being used for mission critical applications (backing up drupal.org, mozilla.org, and kernel.org, for example). Some have offered to lead development. I am interested in offers, but whoever takes it over MUST be good at Perl, good at testing, and committed to keeping those mission critical applications working well, existing behavior intact, etc. If anyone is interested, post a proposal to the list. I've got the domain, so I've got veto power, but there are a lot of smart people on this list, and if they all agree that a candidate will do a good job, then I will be glad to provide the tools needed - or even transfer the domain. So job one for any potential development leader is convincing us. Until then, it works, don't break it. I would love to see many improvements, primarily modularization and testing, but I have neither the time or the skills to make that happen. Look at my home page for my current activities. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
