I agree with Philipp on this one. I don't want to fork the code--either for plex86, or for the plex86 web site. But as things stand I can't commit changes to either to keep them up to date. If there are special issues please get back to me directly as immediately as life allows you (note to the non-native English speakers--that is why directly and immediately do not mean the same thing!). I think that once we get this issue sorted out plex86 should be able to continue as a "live" project as opposed to going comatose due to lack of feeding.
That said, while Kevin is away the following needs to be done: 1) coredumps and plex86 crashes while booting W95/linux in plex86 need to be isolated. I suspect something going wrong in the protected mode instruction catching/emulation phase of execution. 2) We need a friendly(er?) interface to the configuration files--or better yet a solid and coherent doc file on plex86 configuration. Don't worry about Docbook stuff for the early drafts--we just need _someting_! 3) I need people whom run non English keyboards in clients to test my keyboard code for errors. I can re-post it as needed. Anything in the CVS TODO file is fair game. Keep the list notified of work in progress so as little work is duplcated as possible for the time being. On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Philipp [iso-8859-1] M�ller wrote: > > Let's see, might as well do some wholesale answering. > > <snip> > > > I still haven't decided what I want to do next. I plan > > to take as much time as needed. > > <snip> > > > Anyways, I'm working on neither at the moment. Back > > to my regularly scheduled program... > > Kevin, > if I understand you correctly, then you have stalled your development on > Plex86 for the moment. > > As a lot of people on the list already have stated to work on Plex86, > I think you should at least state too, how you like to have the situation in > the next time. > Either you should give access rights to some on the list, so they can > contribute on their own (and we can keep the history within CVS) or you > should state, that it would be more senseful to move the project to another > site (because for some reasons you cannot give access to the cvs to others). > > Most of the people here on the list don't want to fork, because it's > something like steeling your baby, So with some words on this issue, I think > everybody would be a bit more comfortable in the next time. > > If there is no maintainer to find, I'm willing to make all the administrative > work (like setting up the project at a site, give the rights to users, > include diffs, etc.) even if I'm neither a wizard of C nor do I have > contributed anything useful yet. But I don't think this is really necessary. > > As some have problems with SF, I would use different one. > I already have one small project on SF, so I'm not really completely new to > this. > If someone else (Drew?) would like to take this task, this would be even > better ;-) > > Please Kevin, > > give some advice, as nobody wants to take this over in a hostile kind of way. > > Thanks, > > Philipp > > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ __/ __/
