Hi All, I won't name names individually, but thanks to everyone who shared messages of good will and suggestions and tips for how to make things sustainable.
Here's how it's gone down: Four days without a computer, worth every penny. Capistrano 2 is as of now, officially unmaintained. It's been largely unmaintained for ~6 months anyway, and there'll be people who are stuck there, until they can move to v3. In the spirit of sustainable open source, if people want to send pull request with tests and docs for Cap 2 features that don't exist in v3 yet, we'll be happy to include them. Cap 3 is a bunch of gems now, sshkit, capistrano itself, capistrano-bundler, capistrano-rails, capistrano-rvm (and rbenv, and chruby), and capistrano-maintenance. If anyone wants to host something generally applicable, contact the list, and suggest it, and we'll be happy to let you take the reigns, but host it under Github's Capistrano organisation. We think we're got pretty good coverage of the common cases with those gems that already exist, but I'm sure there'll be other things that turn out to be widely useful. Kir Shatrov and Tom Clements wrote the bulk of the Rails, rvm, rbenv, and other plugins, whilst I wrote sshkit, and most of Capistrano (Tom helped a lot with the core, too) - so the work is quite well split for now. I'm subscribed to all repositories at Github, and will continue to monitor all emails and try and respond in a timely fashion. I'll be pushing http://harrow.io/ as a "pro" solution for Capistrano. It'll offer a lot more than what the old *webistrano* used to offer, one might think of Harrow as being for build/deployment as what Travis and Jenkins are to testing, and what Github and BitBucket have done for code hosting. Think ..... *collaborative, versioned deployment and build environments*. There'll be a follow up post to the list, and an attempt to use self-starter to raise the last bit of money we need to get Harrow launched announced shortly. I'm also dropping a day's client work each week, the real cost to me is in the order of €2000 net/month, but I think it's a real way to continue to do what I want to do, and to push Harrow, which is where I want to be working in order to maintain Capistrano. I'm willing to invest 12-18 months to see if Capistrano, through Harrow can be made sustainable, before I'll pick the client work back up again, and get back to pushing my non-FOSS work. I've never felt like I could really build up a community of happy, paying customers around a tool that has been free as long as it has existed, but the responses to the mailing list and HackerNews responses to my burnout, and the subsequent fall out have inspired me to give it a shot. To you all, you have my thanks for your support, and my gratitude for standing my me, and by Capistrano. You have also my thanks for your patience, those of you who've had pull requests closed without answer, or who've caught the short end of the stick when my patience has run low. Yours, Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 10 October 2013 10:06, Michał Papis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I'm up to help with support (and possibly maintenance) as capistrano often > overlaps with rvm which I'm maintaining right now, already joined > #capistrano and started helping. > > Thank you for your work on Capistrano! > > Cheers, > Michal > > -- > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
