Hello Violet!
Thank you for taking this to GitHub and setting that up. The work of
gerbv is the work of many people. I see there are already patches coming
in, which is great!
I incidentally looked at some ChangeLog files and it seems that tomorrow
(31st of August) it is exactly 20 years since the first entry in that
ChangeLog. Makes me feel old ;)
My GitHub user name is spe-ciellt, it's me and my company. You may add
me, but I am not sure that I can do any major work, I still feel a bit
too busy. So you may continue to run the project as you wish, never mind
me. I hope you get more support and help from the community. Maybe I pop
up here and there with some patch or anything?
Best regards,
/Stefan
On 2021-08-29 21:37, Violet Land via Gerbv-devel 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/
<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
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