On 13/07/10 21:41, Adam Mercer wrote: > I'm just wondering what the current status of the project is, I've > been seeing various emails over the past several months related to > getting a new release out but nothing seems to have materialised. Is > 0.7.1 still the latest release? Is <http://gitx.frim.nl> also the > current homepage?
I think it's safe to say that not much has been happening to mainline GitX in the last few months (yes, 0.7.1 is still the most recent version and was tagged in September '09). While there are other great branches out there (like brotherbard's experimental branch), none of these efforts have yet been incorporated into mainline, or thoroughly tested or unified. The GitX-Homepage is still the official resource. Forking or handing over the project to a more active maintainer is, in this case, not completely trivial since the auto-update-functionality for GitX will keep looking for correctly signed updates at the old location. Adding to the diversity in forks, there are many different spots for feature-request or bugs. Right now we have this ML, a lighthouse-tracker, some github-tracker and github-wiki-pages. So before any real work could continue these would have to been cleaned (or unified), bug-reports investigated or discarded and then a new release should be made as quickly after that as possible, so people have a fresh start and new motivation to keep contributing. I'd really like to see GitX move on, even if I don't use it myself anymore. An alternative called "Gity" (at least it's open-source) and one called "gitti" (commercial, probably even closed-source) have popped up and I hate to see them trump GitX despite our obvious headstart ;) So if anyone feels up to the task of maintaining GitX (looking at all the different branches, having a good feeling for the coding-style and interface-guidelines and able to say "No" once in a while), please do step forward! Greetings, Jojo -- Johannes Gilger <[email protected]> http://heipei.net GPG-Key: 0xD47A7FFC GPG-Fingerprint: 5441 D425 6D4A BD33 B580 618C 3CDC C4D0 D47A 7FFC
