I'm currently considering taking over Capistrano and/or starting a new deployment system from scratch. I'll keep you posted.
-Jordan On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Ken Hudson wrote: > > Well, what worries me is that someone will take over Cap from Jamis - > lots of someones. There's nothing to prevent many people from forking > the code. However, at that point we'll be choosing between > abc_capistrano, def_capistrano, xyz_capistrano, etc. Unfortunately, > Jamis didn't designate anyone to take over for him so I think there > will be many people willing to do the job but no one overseeing the > effort. Seems like the situation is pretty ripe for chaos to me. It > would be OK for some open source projects but Capistrano is just too > important for this to happen. Of course, there's no way to prevent > it. In the meantime from the users perspective we'll have no way of > knowing which fork of Capistrano is the "good" fork... > > I did try checking out Vlad but unfortunately all of the tutorials, > faqs, migration from Capistrano docs etc give 404's when you try to > access them from http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html. > So... I don't know... > > Thanks, Ken > > > On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Patrick Crowley wrote: > >> >> I think we'll be fine. :) >> >> Someone will probably take over Cap from Jamis. And Vlad is a good >> alternative if that doesn't happen or Cap gets worse over time. >> >> -- Patrick >> >>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Jordan A. Fowler 2928 Fir St. San Diego, CA 92102 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.jordanfowler.com Phone: (619) 339-6752 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
