I sometimes miss the days when I was able to do some contributions. Unfortunatly for me the company I work for decided to go for git instead of hg; so my own motivation kind of plummeted.
On Jun 9, 1:14 am, Bastian Doetsch <[email protected]> wrote: > I sometimes miss these times... it was a good way to get to know Mercurial > and Eclipse Plugin programming, but right now I only use MercurialEclipse. > Nonetheless, I'm still proud of what be achieved back then and of course I'm > happy to see the plugin evolving and getting better and better... > > Cheers > Bastian > > Am 08.06.2011 um 22:07 schrieb zingo: > > > > > > > > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/mercurialeclipse?hl=en. -- 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.
