mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, There was a post on a popular Russian-speaking IT site geektimes.ru authored from an account with an associated full name Ilia Maslakov titled (translated) ms is over!?: http://geektimes.ru/post/250964/ Link to author's account is at the bottom of the article:

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 27.05.2015 13:37, Paul Sokolovsky пишет: Hi all, The current maintainers, namely Andrew Borodin, Slava Zanko, Ilia Maslakov, Sergei Trofimovich - please provide full disclosure of what happens within your team. Whatever it is, please show

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread David Both
Hi - Although I just signed on to the team to try to work with documentation, mc is one of the most important tools in my box. Therefore, despite the fact that I have very little coding experience on a project like this, I am certainly willing to learn anything necessary to keep mc alive. I

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Volodymyr Buell
Please organise a pol to choose a right person. Personally my opinion - why not to give a steering wheel to Mooffie - the author of mc^2 fork? It seems like he did much more for mc than anybody else in past few years. I suggest his candidature. On May 27, 2015 8:19 AM, Slava Zanko

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Mooffie
On 5/27/15, Paul Sokolovsky pmis...@gmail.com wrote: happens within your team. Whatever it is, please show goodwill by adding Egmont Koblinger to the maintainer team, if he agrees I second that! ___ mc-devel mailing list

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Luca, 27.05.2015 14:43, Luca Lazzarini wrote: Hi all! I am Luca, it is the first time that I write here. Honestly I cannot let mc die, so I would be happy to offer myself as volunteer to help the development. I am a web developer, for the

Article about Midnight Commander on OpenSource.com

2015-05-27 Thread David Both
I like Midnight Commander very much. And I have authored several articles for OpenSource.com. My latest, which has been in progress for several weeks - long before the current developers announced that they would be retiring from the project - is about Midnight Commander. Please check it out.

Re: [ANN] mc^2

2015-05-27 Thread Mooffie
On 5/8/15, Egmont Koblinger egm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How much work would it be to port your branch to 4.8.14 or git head? I'd really like to use your version for daily work Done. The 4.8.14 port has just been pushed to github. The Getting started (and Installation) chapter now has the

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Mooffie
On 5/27/15, Volodymyr Buell vbu...@gmail.com wrote: Please organise a pol to choose a right person. Personally my opinion - why not to give a steering wheel to Mooffie Hey, hold the horses. I'm not at all a programming hotshot, and being practically anonymous here so far, I should be treated

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Volodymyr Buell
Everything you said is right. But what current mc lacks are new features. Developers can be very good at code refactoring or cleaning-up or rewriting the editor to support charset detection... but in reality what people want is the tool that do what THEY want - and yes, plugins ARE the solution.

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Wed, 27 May 2015 21:04:33 +0200 Yury V. Zaytsev y...@shurup.com wrote: [] If you have been following the development, it would have been known to you that, as a matter of fact, all relevant discussions to the development of mc in the last 4-5 years were happening in Russian

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 13:37 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: There was a post on a popular Russian-speaking IT site geektimes.ru authored from an account with an associated full name Ilia Maslakov titled (translated) ms is over!?: http://geektimes.ru/post/250964/ I can confirm that this is

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 18:42 +0300, Mooffie wrote: Second, Andrew Borodin has been doing a tremendous (and fantastic) work of cleaning up the code. People perhaps aren't aware of this. It won't be right to say that MC stagnates. Andrew was one of the best maintainers that I have seen so far,

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 12:30 -0400, Volodymyr Buell wrote: Just give people a chance and github would bursting with mc extensions... Let me give you an example: One contributor came up with an idea to fix a bug add a new feature; the patch was applied without much ado. A severe regression

Re: mc is over!? - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

2015-05-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 14:35 +0200, Luca Lazzarini wrote: The sooner I get the access to the repository, the sooner I can start to check the code. Hi Luca, You already have (read) access to the repository: https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc The issue tracking system is (currently) at

Re: [ANN] mc^2

2015-05-27 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 19:25 +0300, Mooffie wrote: (This is not yet the stage-by-stage patch I promised here to the maintainers (together with some reviewers guide document, to ease their work), but this will come soon.) Sweet! Sorry, I was hoping to commit the stuff you added to the Trac