On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 12:53:11AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > As people noted in last months / years... the worlds OS, apps, > developers, and tech oriented operating system / repo / code / porters > eyeballs users and interactors have more or less moved en masse > to git, primarily on github, often augmented by running > their own git copies in house if they are a large project. > > It's unlikely under what is now an ecosystem settled > into git, that any new talent or otherwise will bother > trying to use monotone or any other repo to fetch > patch hack commit etc on anyones code, regardless > of whether that code is an OS, a repo, or an app. > It's the language problem, if you are one speaking Z, > in a world where everyone else speaks only A, > you will need to adapt to them. > > If monotone wants to survive in a compileable state > across OS, to maintain an example presence that > alternative repo embodiments are available that do run > and can be studied and tried out, it needs at minimum... > > a) A tarball release that compiles against the latest > versions of all external libraries, and on the latest > release of FreeBSD and Linux-Debian. > > and > > b) A github repo (and ticket system) that is considered an > "upstream" that can be interacted with and that will accept > maintenance patches from the OS and userspace. > > and > > c) Some public FYI blurb advert when doing those interactions, > and in the topline of the toplevel README, that monotone is > accepting new maintenance / dev people. No one lives or > maintains forever, thus wise continually seek new eyballs and > people in wherever the new places are.
I might be willing to step up here, but I'm not a youngster that will carry maintenance into the far future. I'm 74. -- hendrik > > Otherwise monotone dies. > > If there are compilation and bug patches out there waiting to > be applied, and tarballs with them needing cut, then someone > or some group throwing a monotone continuance project up on > github and working those things there is probably not a bad idea. > There used to be a very usable publicly accessible site that kept people's monotone databases online. I used it to back up my own development repositories. -- hendrik
