On mar, 2010-09-28 at 18:59 -0400, Kenneth Reitz wrote:
> I am very well aware that this project is a free, open-source, > project. And, it is by far the slowest moving open source project I've > encountered in years. This project has enormous potential, yes goes by > mainly unnoticed. This is mainly due to the poor documentation. You are welcome to provide comments (or patches) to the manual: http://www.pyinstaller.org/export/latest/tags/1.4/doc/Manual.html?format=raw > > Has anyone considered putting the project up on GitHub? > > > Changing the infrastructure will not make more development > happen, and > will drain resources in the migration. > > Managing the repository on GitHub could foster tremendous growth. > Anyone could fork the repository, edit the wiki, make contributions, > raise issues, and send pull requests within a matter of moments. It > would take 4 minutes to 'migrate' the repository (it literally took me > 4 minutes: http://github.com/kennethreitz/pyinstaller). Anyone can help with the wiki, make contributions and raise issues even right now, and yet we have few contributors. I think this has absolute nothing to do with the tools. We don't have a problem with "scaling" at all. > Open source projects are no longer managed by people passing around > diffs and patches to mailing lists and trac instances. We did that in > 1998. Now we have distributed source control, which allows you to send > a reference to an actual (set of) commits. > Patches are what is causing this project to drag behind. *Absence* of patches is what is causing this project to drag behind. If there were so many patches to make the current infrastructure unsuitable, I would be the first to migrate. > Someone submitted a patch to add Python 2.7 support a MONTH ago and it > STILL isn't merged in? This should have taken mere moments. And you really think that it is not yet merged because it takes more than one month to physically download it and commit it with our current tools and infrastructure? -- Giovanni Bajo :: Develer S.r.l. [email protected] :: http://www.develer.com Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it Last post: Compile-time Function Execution in D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" 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/pyinstaller?hl=en.
