On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, M Rawash wrote:
now that tuomov has finally severed his last remaining connection with ion, what do we (committed ion users) do now?
First, thanks for starting this thread! I did notice that Tuomov's pages were down, but since his whole site was down, I was waiting for it to come back without realizing he might have taken the whole project down. Quick question: do we know for sure Tuomov has severed connections with ion3 permanently or is this our best guess at this point? ion3 has been my primary environment for a while now, and I won't consider changing. I love its design, philosophy, and simplicity, but I'm preaching to the choir here. I'm all for forking into /one/ fork, and that too only because of the licensing issue--please lets not make multiple messy forks. Like a few of you, I don't have much time either right now, but expect to be able to contribute a more a few months down the line. But I can contribute towards getting us going right now if needed. We have at least a few tasks to accomplish ASAP just so we don't lose continuity or momentum (please suggest other things that need to be done too): - We need a new name and so far, I personally like both "notion" (my top favorite) and "neon". Do we have any other nominations? Note that we can always change the name later. It's good to get moving on things even based on a temporary name if we can't reach consensus. - We need to get the codebase including the latest set of sources (easy, many of us have this), and also as much of the associated git repos as we can. - We need a central place to get ourselves organized and store code. I nominate sourceforge (well established, well known, supports git). I've speculatively created a new 'notion' project (we can change name, details, or even the site later): http://notion.sourceforge.net/ - We need 2 or 3 managers and/or lead devlopers. IMHO, managers do not /necessarily/ need to have in-depth code knowledge, and lead developers do not need to necessarily manage, though this can all be the same person. Any volunteers?
