Hi all, So I have moved the SVN repository as a git repository. I am not planning on hacking mrxvt much anymore, but if we have to move to git, we may as well do it well, which means keep the history, with names and dates, tags and the branch (only one: my UTF-8 work-in-progress, never finished, i.e. stable, unfortunately).
Since everyone absolutely wants github apparently, I put it on github. Anyway that will be easy to move. I don't care much anymore. Here it is: https://github.com/Jehan/mrxvt I have updated committer names and emails as we discussed previously (well I had only answers from Jimmy and Gautam at the time). The correspondence table is: fdeweerdt = Frederik Deweerdt <fdewee...@users.sourceforge.net> gautam = gi1242 <gi1...@gmail.com> gi1242 = gi1242 <gi1...@gmail.com> jimmyzhou = Jimmy Zhou <jingminz...@gmail.com> mschoechlin = Marc Schoechlin <m...@256bit.org> Please if you were a committer and still reading. If you wish to change something to the name and email you will appear with on the log, now is the time. :-) If you detect any error in the git import, now is also the time to tell about it. Now as I said above, that does not mean I would work much (if at all) on mrxvt, but I propose the following: - I'll update the current website to announce the official repository is moved there, waiting for new developers and maintainership. - My (likely) only interaction is that if we get pull requests, I will gladly review the patches and merge them. - If a contributor makes several patches and seem active and willing to take over the project, unless Jimmy and Gautam disagree, we could give officially the maintainership to this contributor (and the git repository can then be moved again if needed, or there can be an intermediate step where I give write access to this new contributor). By the way, if any of the existing contributors need a write access to this git repo, just ask me, give me your github login and I will add you to the project. How does that sound? Jehan Le 2016-09-09 01:12, Jehan a écrit : > Hi Andy, > > Le 2016-09-08 23:29, Andy Mender a écrit : >> Thank you kindly for your response. I set myself a git repository on >> GitHub at: https://github.com/AndyMender/mrxvt [1] > > Please if the goal is actually to take maintainership of the project, > you should keep its history pristine. So the git commit must reflect > the SVN commits. Also the SVN branches should be moved as git > branches. Same for tags. > See: > https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git > >> If something is not in order, please do let me know. I still have much >> >> to learn in terms of GIT usage. Meanwhile, I shall proceed with >> building >> the AUR package(s). >> >> Best regards, >> Andy Mender >> >> On 8 September 2016 at 15:30, <gi1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:13:12PM +0200, Andy Mender wrote: >>> >>>> I am in the process of preparing a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux to add >>>> mrxvt to AUR. I noticed that active development of this terminal >>>> emulator has somewhat ceased. Would it be possible for me to join >>>> development or fork the project to a git repository? I am far >>> more >>>> familiar with git than with SourceForge. > > That's Free Software, so there is no need to ask for forking. Though > it's always cool to say it of course. ;-) > But if you mean rather to do a rebirth of the project (i.e. keeping > the name and simply moving the upstream to a new repository), then > that's worth discussing. > I am in favor to say that we should see after a few commits at least, > and then if it looks like you are really giving a second life to > mrxvt, we should go for it and officially give maintainership. > >>> Dear Andy, >>> >>> I use mrxvt as my only terminal emulator on about 5 different >>> systems >>> (all Debian). I've also completely run out of free time, so I will >>> only >>> ever fix bugs that affect me! >>> >>> I would love it if we moved from SVN to git! Sourceforge has git, >>> so we >>> needn't move away from SourceForge. But can move if the person >>> doing the >>> work chooses. > > I would prefer not staying on Sourceforge after the unfortunate events > which happened (even though it changed ownership since then). Anyway I > see that you chose Github above. > >>> If you want admin access so you can udpate the website / tracker >>> let me >>> know. (I think Jehan volunteered to move everything to GitLab >>> sometime ago but he ran out of time as well...). > > Yes I am very sorry for this. I really wanted to keep hacking mrxvt, > and really wanted to finish someday my work rather than keeping this > unfinished feeling. But now I see that I don't think I can make the > time for this anymore. It is not my main priority nowadays. > > So it is better if someone takes the baby from us. > > Since you seem a little unfamiliar with all git arcanes, I can at > least take the time to rewrite the history into a git repository on > github, then you can simply "fork" from it. Would you want this? But > please don't work from a broken history. It just won't do it! > > Also why did you add release tarball and patch files directly into the > tree root? > I see also you have committed a lot of generated files. Do not commit > generated files (sometimes there are acceptable reasons for some > generated files, but here this is not the case for all the build files > you added). > > If you could please fix all these issues first? :-) > Thanks. > > Jehan > >>> GI >>> >>> -- >>> <LIFE><!----Insert boring stuff here----></LIFE> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] https://github.com/AndyMender/mrxvt >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Materm-devel mailing list >> Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel >> mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net -- Que la Sainte Marmotte soit avec moi! 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