I have a few patches for you, too. You'll have them as PRs shortly. Eyal
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 1:38 PM Violet Land via Gerbv-devel < gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Dear Stefan, > > > > This sounds awesome! I am the original developer of this whole thing. > > thank you very much for developing gerbv, it’s utility cannot be > overstated! > > > > I have actually been pondering exactly this move for a couple of months, > but I'm happy you beat me to it. > > that’s a relief! Creating a fork is sometimes seen as a hostile action, > but this is definitively not the case here. > > I couldn’t find your GitHub handle, but I’d be happy to invite you into > the gerbv GitHub organization. > > > > Considering all the tools available today there are probably many and > great ways to improve the code base. For instance, I took pride in running > valgrind now and then to avoid memory leaks. > > this is actually one of my medium-term goals :-) first I want to get the > code to compile with -Werror and then get the tests running again / add new > tests for patches. > > > > But baby steps... I think this is a great step to at least being able to > start accepting and incorporating all the patches that floats around out > there. > > looking forward to a new future for gerbv! > > > Kind regards > ooxi > > > > > > > Воскресенье, 29 августа 2021, 20:13 +03:00 от Stefan Petersen < > s...@ciellt.se>: > > > Hello Violet! > > This sounds awesome! I am the original developer of this whole thing. I > have actually been pondering exactly this move for a couple of months, but > I'm happy you beat me to it. I saw that you already have made great > progress on GitHub like adding CI and a nice web page. > > I think this is precisely the injection gerbv needs by starting a more > open development and accepting changes easier and more broadly. When I > stopped working on gerbv git was a glimpse in the eye of Linus Torvalds. > But with all the infrastructure with GitHub et al hopefully makes it easier > to run this project. > > Considering all the tools available today there are probably many and > great ways to improve the code base. For instance, I took pride in running > valgrind now and then to avoid memory leaks. But as soon as I left a bunch > of Python developers rewrote a lot of code because "it looked bad" and > "didn't like the code" and thus created a lot of memory leaks. > > But baby steps... I think this is a great step to at least being able to > start accepting and incorporating all the patches that floats around out > there. > > Best regards, > /Stefan > On 2021-08-29 17:13, Violet Land via Gerbv-devel wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I’m an avid user of gerbv and have also integrated libgerbv into my > workflow. Unfortunately, as others on this mailing list have notices, the > development of this project has stalled. > > I therefore decided to create a gerbv GitHub organization [1] and invite > all interested parties to join. CI based on GitHub Actions is already > running and binaries for Ubuntu, Fedora and Windows are published on > https://gerbv.github.io/ > > My next steps will be to apply bug fixes from SourceForge and the Mailing > list, which I can verify myself. My hope is to revive this project and have > pull requests from other developers. > > This is a friendly fork and I invite everybody, especially the original > developers to join :-) > > > Kind regards > ooxi > > > > [1] https://github.com/gerbv > > > _______________________________________________ > Gerbv-devel mailing listgerbv-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > <//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3agerbv%2dde...@lists.sourceforge.net>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel > > -- > Stefan Petersen > Ciellt AB > Läckövägen 23 > SE-121 50 Johanneshov, SWEDEN > Tel: +46-733-627526 > Web: http://spe.ciellt.se/ > > _______________________________________________ > Gerbv-devel mailing list > Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <http:///compose?To=gerbv%2dde...@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-deve > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel>l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gerbv-devel mailing list > Gerbv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gerbv-devel >
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