NB: To and Reply-To set to gnugo-devel m.l; Cc trimmed. () bump-m...@sporadic.stanford.edu (Daniel Bump (b...@math.stanford.edu email)) () Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:44:28 -0700
> I hope that by including gnugo-devel in the discussion, we > can get more perspectives and that the GNU Go maintainers > can be convinced to change their position to that of "do > not keep generated files under version control", on the way > to eventually approving a merge of that branch and future > development along those lines. I think I was the one that was arguing for this position (mainly so that someone could build gnugo more easily after downloading from savannah versus a tarball), and since Gunnar was not in agreement, I would not insist on the point. That's great news. Thanks for reconsidering! I would like to propose the next steps for us to take, collectively: - create top-level file HACKING, includes info on - branch discipline (e.g., push to ‘master’ vs dev br & merge) - how to bootstrap (run autogen.sh, etc) - how to make a release - copyright discipline (e.g., once per year vs only on change) - coding conventions (whitespace, indentation, etc) - other developer-only info/lore - etc - merge branch ‘ttn-maint’ (and delete afterwards) - gather / apply other fixes found in the wild - make a test maintenance release (published on alpha.gnu.org) (info "(maintain) Test Releases") and solicit timely feedback - tweak as necessary / work out the kinks - make a "real" maintenance release I'm not a maintainer, but i can take a crack at writing HACKING (adapting the GNU RCS HACKING[1], basically, w/ input from everyone), and help out w/ the other stuff. It's been many years since the last GNU Go release, so there's no rush (IMHO), but i think it would be reasonable to aim for "real" release by end of year. What do the maintainers think? Is this something you'd approve? I don't want to step on anyone's toes! [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/tree/HACKING?h=p -- Thien-Thi Nguyen ----------------------------------------------- (defun responsep (query) ; (2022) Software Libero (pcase (context query) ; = Dissenso Etico (`(technical ,ml) (correctp ml)) ...)) 748E A0E8 1CB8 A748 9BFA --------------------------------------- 6CE4 6703 2224 4C80 7502
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