On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 6:15 AM Joerg Wunsch <j...@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > > As Doom wrote: > > > Regarding the already allocated name, would you reconsider the question to > > move to GitHub > > if I get back *avrdude* GitHub account name for the project ? > > Again, it's not a matter of Git or not, it's a matter of someone > converting the remaining infrastructure. I can export the issues on > Savannah, but the result is only a simple HTML blurb. It has a bit of > structure, but it's not like a nice XML document you can easily > parse. So it needs work, to read and parse that HTML, and hack a > script that imports all this into Github.
Good point. For smaller projects it is not a big problem. I migrated libusb-win32 and libusbk from Sourceforge to github. But then I have to manually migrate the issues in github. Luckily we have not many issues in Sourceforge. We keep the mailing list in Sourceforge. Ref: less than 30 issues before migration https://github.com/mcuee/libusb-win32/issues https://github.com/mcuee/libusbk/issues > > PS : You're maybe "alone" in the project because the official repo is not > > on GitHub ! > > I'm not so sure about that. > > What I really don't need is people sending more pull requests. It took > me years to find the time and energy to process the already existing > patches (which is roughly the equivalent of a pull request). What it > really needs is people who are willing to work on all those requests > and reported issues, review the patches, try and test them, suggest > what needs to be done before they are acceptable. Very good points. Pull-request is important but more important is the people who want to spend time to review the patches, diagnose the reported issues, try and test the patches, ... I am not so sure libusb is a good comparison or not to avrdude, but I think it is an important project but we are really short of maintainers and reviewers. Ref: https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/947 Moving to github may help a bit but will not fundamentally change the issues projects like libusb and avrdude are facing. -- Xiaofan
