On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:46:43PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> wrote: > > > > An acquaintance and I might be able to contribute to it in the meantime. > > > > We're interested in a C API for Fossil being available for > > production use some time in the next year or so, and as such might > > be motivated to hack on it. We'll have to discuss it and let you > > know if we're up for it, if you'd like to see some concerted > > contribution effort from us. > > The only requirement for code submissions is that a license/copyright > waiver be on file with DRH, so that this code can be kept license-clean > vis-a-vis fossil(1) (from which it borrows a huge (and growing) amount of > code). Any sort of assistance, coding or not, is more than welcomed. As far > as "in the next year or so" goes, my very rough guess is that it will take > about until about the end of the year to get most of the fossil(1) > functionality, minus the HTML and networking bits, working at a usable > equivalent level. That might be pessimistic, though: as of a few moments > ago, the formerly-missing low-level pieces of SCM machinery are in place > and working in libfossil. The "verify at commit" bits were just added, > which frees me up to experiment a bit more without concern about completely > breaking my repo during experimentation/testing. Now it's mainly about > tweaking those core APIs and adding the "real" functionality on top of > that. e.g. you can save a wiki page _if_ you know how to brew the secret > sauce (it's not hard, but it's a bit tedious), but the APIs for working > with them at a higher level have yet to be developed (it's an ongoing > process). > > If you decide you'd like to contribute code, the waiver can be found here: > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/copyright-release.html > > and needs to be snail-mailed to DRH (address is in the form).
After discussing this with my collaborator, we'll send those off if we've decided to commit time to working on libfossil. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
