My apologies for not following the list more closely (oh, say for the last
18-24 months). Things got difficult to track when we started webMethods and
it's basically taken 100% of my time since. It's true that I've begun to
transition vtcl to sourceforge. The 1.2 and 1.3 CVS trees have been
imported. What's there is the most current stuff I have. I would also like
to transition the web site, mailing list and bug tracking facility. Since
I haven't had a lot of contiguous time to devote it's taking longer than
expected.
Over the last 2 years I've received a very low volume of patches. I cannot
judge from this the fluency of the vtcl user base as candidates for active
maintenance (update access to CVS). This and just a complete lack of time
have been the biggest barriers to ongoing development. It's true that I
had much larger plans for vtcl than I ever got around to building. It's
still my hope to get there (or somewhere like it) someday whether or not
it's me who does the maintenance. Moving the site and source base to
sourceforge guarantees that it can be maintained in my absence.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on how to select maintainers
(no more than two) for vtcl. It may be obvious to those who track the list
in which case nominations are in order (or nominate yourself).
A word or two on the 1.3 source base. As it stands, 1.3 runs and saves
but cannot re-load a project it has saved. I began to change the file
format to something more modular. The UI has changed significantly. I was
working on a tabbed panel for preferences and pluggable icon/widget bars.
Do not use 1.3 unless you want to a) kick the tires or b) write code to
fix it. Option 'b' will require a bit of investment to understand the code.
My apologies that is it not better commented.
I hope to sort out the hosting/maintenance situation in the next few
weeks. Thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
Stewart
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Eric Bresie wrote:
> I was just noticing this...
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=285
>
> It seems like the cvs tree that's on there has a lot of 1.2 code imported,
> however I am curious if any changes that may have been made on this one
> differ from the 1.3 code?
>
> Also..can we move the FAQ as part of the sourceforge.net cvs tree? perhaps
> in the docs? Then we can hopefully track it a little better. And also have
> it associated with a specific version also.
>
> Stewart is the Project Administrator (is he still working on this or should
> we have someone else take over). To be a developer you apparently have to
> contact Stewart. As a developer you can have access via ssh cvs access.
>
> I am not real familar with how sourceforge works...(but I am looking at
> it)..This looks like a good place to put things though, with a message
> forum, bug tracking, etc.
>
> Althought it seems like we might want to see about getting this mailing list
> included in the mailing list portion and/or moved over their. And maybe
> also move the home page their also.
>
> Eric Bresie
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Joao Cardoso
> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:03 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [vtcl] anything new since 1.2.0?
> >
> >
> > Uwe Koloska wrote:
> > >
> > > You wrote on Mit, 15 M�r 2000:
> > ...
> > > a FAQ maintainer was there -- is he still involved?
> >
> > Not really. The FAQ hasn't been updated for centuries.
> >
> > Most of the FAQs in the mailing list are really tcl/tk ones, and for
> > that that are excelent tcl/tk FAQs.
> >
> > Also, and nonelethess of the 'robots.txt' file the FAQ page is acessed
> > from robots, and that is ruining my budget... I would be happy if
> > someone hosted it. Perhaps vtcl.sourceforge.net?
>
> > Joao Cardoso, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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