On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2011 3:12 AM, "Jukka Zitting" <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Hyrum K Wright >> <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: >> > By it's own recognition, however, the development community >> > surrounding Trac has largely dissipated, with little mailing list >> > traffic, and very few commits to the source code repository (see [2]). >> > Private efforts to engage the existing developers in implementing >> > features have been negatively received. At the same time, other >> > individuals and companies, such as >> > [[http://www.wandisco.com|WANdisco]], have expressed interest in >> > helping continue to develop Trac. These entities would prefer this >> > effort to be at a vendor-neutral location, with the clear process for >> > intellectual property management that comes from the Foundation. >> >> Do you have pointers to public discussions about this? Without a >> well-documented history of attempts and failure to engage with the >> existing developers this could easily be seen as a hostile fork. > > I've seen some offlist discussions with the principals behind Trac. This > has not caught them unaware. One of those devs even created a wiki page at > Edgewall for Bloodhound: > http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/BloodHound?action=diff&version=1 > > My impression of their view is "ambivalence". > >> Most notably, has the idea of bringing Trac itself to the ASF been >> presented to Edgewall? What was their response? > > Hyrum has seen more of the discussion and could answer better, but my read > is that ambivalence again. They aren't going to put in an effort themselves > to move Trac itself. > > I seem to recall a couple of the devs are interested in the move, and want > to see how it goes.
That pretty much captures it. The complete discussion on the trac-dev mailing list is here: http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev/browse_thread/thread/14268355c6e1d494 -Hyrum --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
