Martin Nicholas via Amforth-devel <amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 17:04:01 +0200
> tristan <h...@tjnw.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Fellow AmForth-ers,
>> 
>> Perhaps it is time again to consider having a formal maintainer for
>> AmForth. Back in May 2022 Erich stepped down [1] and put in place
>> various resources that could be potentially be used to maintain
>> AmForth (in addition to those that already exist at sourceforge)
>> 
>> To my knowledge, nobody from the mailing list has volunteered
>> individually. Additionally, having a single maintainer does have its
>> own issues. So perhaps a way forward would be to have a small group of
>> maintainers for AmForth. The revelation from Mark R [2] that the
>> latest AmForth can be made using avra does make a difference to me,
>> such that I would volunteer for such a group. So are there others on
>> the mailing list who would be willing to join such a maintainers
>> group?
>
> I would be happy to make some sort of contribution, but being
> essentially a hobbyist programmer, I'm not sure how useful I could be.
> I've never worked in any type of devlopment team.
>
> Documentation is something I could contribute to, but not until next
> year due to on-going commitments in 2023.
>
> Certainly an "advert" for maintiners on AmForth's new home would be a
> good thing; together messages on the socials.
>
> Talking of maintenance, I note that avra (on Sourceforge) hasn't been
> updated since 2019. Maybe it's completed?

At least the home page points to https://github.com/Ro5bert/avra which
has seen some commits since 2019.


mfg²


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