On Jun 3, 12:44 am, codethief <[email protected]> wrote: > For all I care go ahead. I was just being curious what's happened to > the project. On a side note: How come you're obviously not into it > anymore? >
Well as one of the last mails on the list Ill give my story... I started the project since I was selecting between Darcs and Hg, I liked HG better but it didn't have an Eclipse plugin so why not create one. since I'm not a Jave nor Eclipse-plugin coder the project started quite slowly with a lot of googling. After a while some people started to help out a little by sending patches, I had the policy that if someone made a bigger patch or more then one patch they just got commit right, since I was not a Java coder all patches improved stuff quite nicely. Around 2008 there where a few contributors, to be able to look at end use code from plugins the license switch to EPL. With the switch the plugin took a great step forward and about here I stopped commiting, didn't have the time anymore and other people did a much better job then me. Bastian started to commit in a way that he was the big brain behind it and did a great job handling the code and organizing, the plugin started to shape up and went to 1.0 status in just a few months. I was just doing the releases, nothing more. And frankly the plugin was better then my initial hopes and worked on all my own "use-cases". Later Andrey and Dave Watson joined in. Intland made a fork, (if they just asked me there had been a lot less fuzz. I had no intention to keep this under my control and was not using HG in any project. The project was just a burden for me, didn't have time for it and Bastian was abroad so he there was basically no work from us. Andrey worked in the Intland repo so my wishes was to have the "control" where people worked with it, if Intland worked with it then there is where to control should be. After a release (or two) and a lot of "political" talk the projects was re-joined, basically I/we had a few open:nes request before the move that was not quite possible to solve in a good way in javaforge. Now I don't have to think about the releases and bug reports anymore! As the initial goal to start the project was the need for a plugin so I could version control my other projects, for me that actually was fulfilled back in 2008 and I now spend my haxxor time on other stuff. It has been a great journey to follow my person home hacking pet project to a great successful project used by a lot of people. In the beginning it had about 100 downloads per release, around 2009 when I check the logs I think it was about 2000 per mount, about 14000 downloads on the release I counted, it was just amazing (numbers are from my Alzheimer memory). /Zingo > On 26 Mai, 09:51, zingo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On May 19, 12:44 am, codethief <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Where's the action going on, now? Sorry, I haven't been following the > > > project recently as closely as I used to. > > > I don't know but I assume these is some sort of "channel" at Javaforge > > that people are using as this one is very quiet. The idea of closing > > it down is to prevent questions to be asked here in hope for help, as > > the list is almost dead. I don't mind keeping the list if it was more > > "alive". > > > > On 17 Mai, 15:03, zingo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone object if I close down this list, it has been almost dead > > > > for ages... > > > /Zingo the list manager -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MercurialEclipse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mercurialeclipse?hl=en.
