Hey, this is probably just a mail for Jürg and maybe Luca, but if you have a relevant opinion on the matter, that might be a fine reply as well.
So, for quite a while the Vala project has seen very little activity. The three people most involved (Jürg, Luca and Flo) are barely on IRC and/or otherwise reachable which makes it hard to get an opinion or info from them. On the other hand, some people are still doing a great job, namely Rico with all the binding work, as well as Evan (I haven't kept up with what Al is doing other than replying to bugzilla issues that won't be fixed unless it's a binding issue). Lots of people are worried about how the project will stay alive (or if), and quite a lot of projects are written in Vala (including one I maintain) -- and people keep porting projects from C to Vala, mostly hoping for more contributions, hoping the Vala's C#-like syntax scares off less people. Now, we all know that Vala has enough bugs that need to get fixed, as well as lots of potential for improvements (I'll just disregard all the wishes for special syntax for fringe features on IRC, that's not what I'm talking about). Some of them are easy to fix but even if the patches are present in bugzilla and their author is willing to fix them after a review, the review just never happens. This doesn't just cause those bugs to stay unfixed, but those people will also never get accustomed to the internals of valac and so they will never work on anything more important than this simple fix. I have tried in the past to do exactly that and post some patches for simple fixes to get an understanding of valac internals but it's quite frankly huge and there's not a real high-level documentation one could work with (apart from a few very old blog posts form Luca) and neither working tools do debug it (I've once spent a few hours on fixing valag but then gave up...). So... what's the deal here? Is there any way forward one could look into? Is it wip/transform? IIRC there was some dbus stuff broken here? Are there any TODO items for cleaning up the compiler? Should we just tell people to not use Vala in the first place (which would be better for the in the long run)? All of these are fine, but the current situation not so much. Sincerely, Timm _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list