Happy sixth birthday, Machinekit!
Over the last year, the spun-out HAL repo has enjoyed major
improvements from over a dozen contributors in several areas. The HM2
drivers and several HAL comps have new features, HAL now supports the
`arm64` architecture, Machinetalk sports a new OpenCV-based video
server, and many changes went into the build, packaging and CI
infrastructure to support the HAL/CNC repo split. And after years of
wishing for it, I'm happy to see a new CMake build system ready to be
merged.
Along with progress, the year had its challenges, too. The CI service
was suddenly and unexpectedly dismantled, leaving the project without
continuously updated packages; fortunately, an effort to resolve it is
underway.
Most saddening, a few, highly esteemed contributors have gone on
hiatus. I appreciate everything they've done, and only hope to see
them more in the future, even if only on occasion.
I'm just grateful to all of you keeping the project going on a daily
basis. Thank you for submitting all your PRs on GitHub, and thank you
for merging them. Thank you for your chatter on the mailing list.
Thanks to you new, enthusiastic contributors joining the community. I
look forward to collaborating with you over a new CI system and
porting LinuxCNC-EMC to run on Machinekit-HAL over the next year, and
over the next year, I'm looking forward to seeing what other advances
you all bring in.
John
On 4/3/19 10:19 AM, John Morris wrote:
Happy Birthday Machinekit! 5 years old now.
This year, I'm very excited about the progress underway in the
`machinekit-hal` repository. HAL is the crown jewel of the Machinekit
project, and splitting it off into its own repository brings it out
from under the shadow of the EMC application and at last into the
visibility of its own light. There's a lot of polishing left to do,
but it's huge progress that it is already usable, with its own
independent code base and package stream. Congratulations, and thanks
to everyone who helped make this happen!
John
On Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 7:37:16 AM UTC+8, John Morris wrote:
Happy Birthday #4 Machinekit!
While I've probably *contributed to* Machinekit *less* in the last year
than ever before, it turns out I've *used* Machinekit *more*, whether
for the EMC app on my 3D printer, or whether for straight HAL and
QtQuickVCP for Golibox, autoclave and robot controls. Thanks to all
the
devs and maintainers for the great work.
John
On 04/03/2017 12:19 AM, John Morris wrote:
> It's been three years. Happy Birthday, Machinekit!
>
> John
>
>
> On 04/03/2016 04:48 PM, John Morris wrote:
>> Happy two-year birthday, Machinekit! Another great year and
more great
>> leaps forward. Keep it up!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 04/03/2015 03:59 AM, John Morris wrote:
>>> A year ago today on April 3, Michael posted the [Machinekit
>>> announcement] on the Emc-developers list. IMO, that marks the
official
>>> birthday of Machinekit, so,
>>>
>>> Happy Birthday!
>>>
>>> I'm incredibly pleased (and surprised!) by the huge leaps the
project
>>> has made in such a short time, and by the explosive growth of the
>>> project's community. In the [ZeroMQ Guide Chap. 6], Pieter
Hintjens
>>> writes that the two go hand-in-hand, and says "It's hard to
>>> overemphasize the power and persistence of a working open source
>>> community." That's exactly what I see here, an amazing bunch
of folks
>>> continually attracting new amazing folks, and the result is
brilliance.
>>> Congratulations to everybody, both those participating in the
>>> Machinekit project today, and also those who contributed to the
15+ year
>>> legacy of the code base. I can't wait to see what the next
year will
>>> bring.
>>>
>>> [Machinekit announcement]:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/message/32182244/
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fp%2Femc%2Fmailman%2Fmessage%2F32182244%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEO4wlwp94BB-S3U8wscDMdmHmswA>
>>>
>>> [ZeroMQ Guide Chap. 6]: http://zguide.zeromq.org/php:chapter6
<http://zguide.zeromq.org/php:chapter6>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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