+1 on a move to Github, not that I'm entitled to a vote :-) Terry
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Michel Krämer < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stuart, > > First of all let me thank you for your great work! AsciiDoc is really > awesome! > > I've been reading this mailing list for quite some time now and it seems > to me there's a growing community of contributors. Most of them also seem > to be quite competent and possibly qualified to review and submit patches > to AsciiDoc even without requiring to bother you. > > The first step IMHO should be to migrate to GitHub where you have a > platform and tools to make the community even more stronger. People could > fork AsciiDoc and integrate their patches theirselves. Additionally, pull > requests are a great way to keep track of patches that should be integrated > into the mainline. > > I understand that you put a lot of work into AsciiDoc and that you're > looking for something making your life easier. So, the second step should > be to add GitHub community users to the list of project contributors which > will allow them to take over some of your duties (like reviewing patches or > even accepting pull requests). You could even think about creating a > virtual 'organization' where you can manage users/contributors and > permissions. > > I've contributed to several GitHub projects myself and I can say that it's > really a breeze to work with this platform. I'm also part of two > organizations and I've had good experiences so far. > > I would really love to see AsciiDoc on GitHub. I would even consider > contributing myself (and not only reading the mailing list) if you'd allow > me to of course :-) And I think a lot of people think the same way. > > Cheers, > Michel > > > Hi All >> >> I've been working on AsciiDoc for over a decade now and it really has >> been incredibly rewarding, mainly because of all you AsciiDoc users >> and contributors out there -- without your input AsciiDoc would not be >> what it is today (Sourceforge alone has recorded over 25 thousand >> downloads for the 8.6.8 release, and that's not even counting packaged >> distributions or repository downloads!). >> >> With the 8.6.9 release out of the way I've decided that now is a good >> time for me to get out of the driver's seat. >> >> The problem is not AsciiDoc, it's the current development model (if >> you could call it that) which relies heavily on myself (hard to >> believe, but when AsciiDoc was first released in 2002 there was no Git >> or Mercurial). >> >> Despite the best will in the world I just don't have enough spare time >> to manage the development adequately (I apologise to submitters for >> not not reviewing and integrating your patches over the last six >> months or so). >> >> So where to from here? I don't have the answers and I'd be interested >> to hear your thoughts on the subject. >> >> >> Cheers, Stuart >> -- >> Stuart Rackham >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
