[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#731095: Please consider switching tablesorter to alternate upstream

2015-09-10 Thread TheSin

Add one of the regular contributors to Mottie’s branch of TableSorter and I 
tell you that keep compete with the original is something we work very hard at. 
 and we are pretty sure that we have done that over the years.

We have contacted Christian (the original author) a few times over the years to 
combine or even accept our changes but we have had very little to no response 
form him and there has be no level on that branch for a very long time.

As you can see from Mottie’s branch we are very active and fix bugs very fast.  
I can not say with 100% certainty that it won’t break anything at all but I’m 
pretty sure it won’t break any more then a normal upgrade would since it’s 
based on the original work from Christian.  We are currently working on a 3rd 
version, it will get a new name and it’s a full rewrite that version will break 
compete but since we can not seem to cooperate with Christian on the original 
it just seems like a good ideas after all these years for trying.

I hope this helps with the decision and I hope to see it in debian.

As an alternative we could also add it in as an addition to the original. maybe 
in /usr/share/javascript/jquery-tablesorter-mottie/ then both versions would 
exist and allow for other maintainers to migrate at their own pace.  An even 
more complex version with be to move the current one into 
/usr/share/javascript/jquery-tablesorter-original, and add a symlink to 
/usr/share/javascript/jquery-tablesorter so that we can replace the symlink to 
use hotties and once everyone is migrated we could move it there and drop the 
original.  These are all just alternative suggestions of course and 
update-alternatives could be used to properly control it as well.

Hope this helps and feel free to contact me with any questions on this branch 
or tablesorter.
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[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#731095: Please consider switching tablesorter to alternate upstream

2014-02-03 Thread Jerome Charaoui
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Le 2014-02-02 17:09, Iustin Pop a écrit :
 On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:54:17PM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote:
 Several packages in Debian depend on libjs-jquery-tablesorter.
 Are you confident that switching to a fork wouldn't negatively
 impact these packages?
 
 I'm definitely not confident of this, as I'm not familiar with the 
 javascript packaging/versioning/upgrades policy. Hence why I asked
 the maintainer to _investigate_ this situation, as they have
 better knowledge than me on this front, not to simply switch over.

I was asking in regards to the tablesorter plugin itself, not Debian
policies, in the hope that you may be familiar with the differences
between the two. Is the fork a drop-in replacement for the original
plugin? Did it introduce incompatible changes, such as removing
methods or properties? Etc.

Thanks,

 -- Jerome


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[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#731095: Please consider switching tablesorter to alternate upstream

2014-02-02 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:54:17PM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote:
 Several packages in Debian depend on libjs-jquery-tablesorter. Are you
 confident that switching to a fork wouldn't negatively impact these
 packages?

I'm definitely not confident of this, as I'm not familiar with the
javascript packaging/versioning/upgrades policy. Hence why I asked the
maintainer to _investigate_ this situation, as they have better
knowledge than me on this front, not to simply switch over.

thanks,
iustin


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[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#731095: Please consider switching tablesorter to alternate upstream

2013-12-01 Thread Iustin Pop
Package: libjs-jquery-tablesorter
Version: 8-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

The current source for the tablesorter plugin seems to be the original
one at http://tablesorter.com. However, this version hasn't been
updated in more than 5 years, and in the meantime a fork has appeared
at https://github.com/Mottie/tablesorter that actually seems alive.

Could you please investigate switching over to this one? It seems to
fix many bugs and is maintained, so it might make sense to do so.

Thanks!
iustin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9.6-ruru (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libjs-jquery-tablesorter depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery   1.7.2+dfsg-3
ii  libjs-jquery-metadata  8-2

Versions of packages libjs-jquery-tablesorter recommends:
ii  javascript-common  11

libjs-jquery-tablesorter suggests no packages.

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