Re: Gant is to be deleted, or will someone preserve it?

2019-02-04 Thread Paul King 
+1 to archiving it. I am happy for you to add my name as a maintainer if
that helps.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:29 PM Russel Winder  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Way back in 2006, Gant was an experiment in scheduling Ant tasks and
> attempted
> to be a build system. Hans Dockter experiment a lot with it, but in the end
> Gant was not the way forward and we got Gradle. Excellently done Hans (and
> Adam).
>
> Gant was still used by GINT for a while so was maintained a bit. However
> Gint3
> will now use Gradle.
>
> Thus does Gant come to its end of existence.
>
> It is my intention to delete *everything* unless someone wants to take
> control
> of the Gant group on GitHub to preserve the code for posterity.
>
> --
> Russel.
> ===
> Dr Russel Winder  t: +44 20 7585 2200
> 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077
> London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk
>
>

Re: Gant is to be deleted, or will someone preserve it?

2019-02-02 Thread Cédric Champeau 
An alternative is to "archive" the project in GitHub. It's going to be
read-only (see the "settings" tab).

Le sam. 2 févr. 2019 à 09:46, Russel Winder  a écrit :

> On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 09:18 +0100, Guillaume Laforge wrote:
> > Why deleting it?
> > Keep it for posterity! :-)
>
> Someone, or some people, then needs to step up and volunteer to be an
> owner of
> the Gant organisation on GitHub.
>
> --
> Russel.
> ===
> Dr Russel Winder  t: +44 20 7585 2200
> 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077
> London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk
>
>

Re: Gant is to be deleted, or will someone preserve it?

2019-02-02 Thread Russel Winder 
On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 09:18 +0100, Guillaume Laforge wrote:
> Why deleting it?
> Keep it for posterity! :-)

Someone, or some people, then needs to step up and volunteer to be an owner of
the Gant organisation on GitHub.

-- 
Russel.
===
Dr Russel Winder  t: +44 20 7585 2200
41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077
London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk



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Re: Gant is to be deleted, or will someone preserve it?

2019-02-02 Thread Guillaume Laforge 
Why deleting it?
Keep it for posterity! :-)

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 8:29 AM Russel Winder  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Way back in 2006, Gant was an experiment in scheduling Ant tasks and
> attempted
> to be a build system. Hans Dockter experiment a lot with it, but in the end
> Gant was not the way forward and we got Gradle. Excellently done Hans (and
> Adam).
>
> Gant was still used by GINT for a while so was maintained a bit. However
> Gint3
> will now use Gradle.
>
> Thus does Gant come to its end of existence.
>
> It is my intention to delete *everything* unless someone wants to take
> control
> of the Gant group on GitHub to preserve the code for posterity.
>
> --
> Russel.
> ===
> Dr Russel Winder  t: +44 20 7585 2200
> 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077
> London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk
>
>

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