On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 21:33 +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Marco Maggi <[email protected]> writes: > > > Having no reputation, I can take the responsibility of > > asking: should we consider a (possibly temporary) fork of > > Ikarus to help fix bugs? > > > That question came up in my mind as well, FWIW.
Mine too. I think Aziz is now very busy making a living, whereas previously working on Ikarus was related to his PhD studies. IIRC he had to be pushed to even make Ikarus public, presumably because he didn't want to be chained to it. I say let's make a branch for fixing bugs. Branches with different ownership can be independently put under the Ikarus LaunchPad project next to the official branch, and an Ikarus Bug Fixers team could be made which owns the branch to allow multiple members to work on it, and I believe the current bug reporting allows some independent control and associating different branches. I don't think Aziz would have made it open source and chosen LaunchPad (which is made for such independent work) if he wasn't okay with this. Of course, there can be bugs which should be left for Aziz, but we should be able to help somewhat. -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------
