Hi, I think this thread is evidence that there is a strong desire from the user base to revive the development of scid, and that there are people who are interested to help out. Count me among those. I guess it is also uncontroversial that having a larger development community can only benefit the project, because then the project will not die if the sole developer goes MIA.
Then the main question that arises for me is whether Steve (currently only developer of Scid vs PC) would agree to try to build a new team around scid. Obviously not everyone who asks for it should just be given access to the VCS, but starting regular meetings with a discussion of the current todo list and delegation of tasks might be a good idea. I think many people have a tendency to quickly say "sure, I want to help", but then don't actually deliver any work when it comes to it. I don't exclude myself here. Perhaps starting a development mailing list could be a first step in that direction? As suggested IRC meetings might also be a way to go, although I guess the usual problem with different time zones comes into play then. Then there is Fulvio's concern that putting the name scid back on Scid vs PC will ignore the contributions made to scid since the fork. If Scid vs PC gets moved back to scid, I would volunteer to go through all the commits since the fork and investigate whether it would make sense to port those changes to the new version and send patches if sensible. I would also regularly report on those activities. Clearly that would be a lot of work, and I can't commit to do that forever, but for the next 3 months I should have the time. Would that alleviate your concerns Fulvio? On 15 March 2013 10:02, Joao Rita (Food Supply Chain & Logistics Planning) <joao.r...@co-operative.coop> wrote: > I'm volunteering my project management skills to the project if the leaders > would have me. I already manage IT projects as a day job so... Personally I love that idea, my main concern is indeed that Steve might not be willing to spend the time on forming a new team, because that is obviously a very different role which requires a different skill set from being the lead developer on a project. Kind regards, Aljoscha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
