On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 23:43 -0400, Timandahaf wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, M Rawash wrote: > > now that tuomov has finally severed his last remaining connection with > > ion, what do we (committed ion users) do now? > > First, thanks for starting this thread! I did notice that Tuomov's pages > were down, but since his whole site was down, I was waiting for it to > come back without realizing he might have taken the whole project down. > Quick question: do we know for sure Tuomov has severed connections with > ion3 permanently or is this our best guess at this point?
It's a pretty solid guess... > ion3 has been my primary environment for a while now, and I won't > consider changing. I love its design, philosophy, and simplicity, but > I'm preaching to the choir here. > > I'm all for forking into /one/ fork, and that too only because of the > licensing issue--please lets not make multiple messy forks. Like a few > of you, I don't have much time either right now, but expect to be able > to contribute a more a few months down the line. But I can contribute > towards getting us going right now if needed. +1 > We have at least a few tasks to accomplish ASAP just so we don't lose > continuity or momentum (please suggest other things that need to be done > too): > > - We need a new name and so far, I personally like both "notion" (my top > favorite) and "neon". Do we have any other nominations? Note that we > can always change the name later. It's good to get moving on things > even based on a temporary name if we can't reach consensus. "notion" seems to get the most support amongst those who posted so far... > - We need to get the codebase including the latest set of sources (easy, > many of us have this), and also as much of the associated git repos as > we can. done, http://github.com/gwash > - We need a central place to get ourselves organized and store code. I > nominate sourceforge (well established, well known, supports git). > I've speculatively created a new 'notion' project (we can change name, > details, or even the site later): > > http://notion.sourceforge.net/ i was thinking more of googlecode (easier to set-up and get running, and it has a forum/mailinglist of some sort), but i guess sourceforge is good too.. > > - We need 2 or 3 managers and/or lead devlopers. IMHO, managers do not > /necessarily/ need to have in-depth code knowledge, and lead > developers do not need to necessarily manage, though this can all be > the same person. Any volunteers? I agree, and so far we have one volunteer (Alexander Rink, up there), anyone else? M Rawash
