GitHub certainly makes it easier to deal with outside open source
contributors than a mailing list & patches. Arguably it also encourages
people to actually contribute. Pull requests are one example of what helps,
and not only don't you need to accept all PRs, but you also get a record of
the discussions around open and previously closed PRs in a nice form, with
comments that can concern individual code lines etc or even make small
formatting related edits directly in GitHub, all in all very helpful for
both maintaining and contributing end in open source projects.
Another thing that's rather nice about GitHub is that you can connect it to
continuous integration setups, so that for instance a PR gets built against
the master branch and is confirmed to not break building or tests, as
presented with a small status marker beside the commit.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Dominik Seichter <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dennis, Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the caring emails. I am fine and of good health.
> As I did mention at a few times, I currently do not have much time to deal
> with PoDoFo. I am very glad that zyx supported me over the last few month
> with integrating patches, as I cannot do this at the moment. Also, I cannot
> say whether this will change soon and if I will have more time for
> developing PoDoFo in the near future. The reason is, I am busy with my job,
> which is at the moment not PDF related. So there is simply no time left for
> OpenSource work (also because of a busy private life ...).
>
> If someone else is interested in committing patches into the repository, I
> will be glad to also give other commit access. I try to at least review
> commits on the svn mailing list as they come. Other also look on this list,
> so it should be ok if we have a few more committers. Just drop me an email,
> if you want to be added to the project.
>
> It would also be great if someone would want to prepare a new release
> tarball, update the webpage and put the release on sourceforge (maybe also
> freecode.org ...).
>
> Regarding the github discussion: I do not see any advantages of a move to
> github in the current situation. Surely, pull requests are a great tool.
> But, we need people to look at patches and even if I could integrate them
> in github with just one click, I still would need the time to review and
> test patches. If other active developers prefer a move to github, I would
> not object this either. Still, I do not see any advantages at the moment.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Dominik
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Dennis Jenkins <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Dominik Seichter has not posted since 2014-04-13 [1]. Does anyone on
>> this list know if he is ok? When he disappeared for a week or so I though
>> that he might be on vacation; but he's been gone for almost a month.
>>
>> There are several patches waiting to be merged (mine included). Does
>> anyone else on this list of authority to commit changes to the sorceforge
>> podofo repository?
>>
>> I propose that if we do not hear from Dominik my the end of May, that
>> we consider forking (even if temporary) PoDoFo so that we can merge our
>> various changes and continue to move the project forwards. I certainly
>> hope that this is not necessary though. I hope that Dominik is ok and will
>> return to continue to guide/manage PoDoFo.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/mailman/message/32220953/
>>
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