>> Do you have any plan/ideas to "reboost" the code contribution? >> I don't just think of funding , i talk about dev' community.
My first step is actually is already started - migration of bugtracker from our own hosted to github. >From now on all issues will be accepted on GitHub - https://github.com/synfig/synfig/issues With this we got increased activity on the bugtracker for the last month. Actually, this is proves that I was wrong when made a decision to use our own hosted bugtracker (I am talking about discussion about bugtracker few years ago). Custom bugtracker requires to create an account and have unusual interface - it brings some distraction for contributors. GitHub obviously gives an advantage of big community around it. So people are more easily to get involved. Also, there are no additional efforts on maintaining it. With GitHub it is also possible to use Bounties for development. This gives additional advantage to attract more developers, who can solve problems for bounty, and also gives users a tool to resolve important issues. This is especially important, since I am will not be able to invest into Synfig development in the nearest time (details described here - http://synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10078&start=15#p32405). Another important thing that is on my radar - migration of the website to static HTML/Jekyll. That way we can host website on GitHub and anyone can contribute to it via pull request. The work on the new website is already started. The Jekyll might be also a good option to handle Synfig documentation. Because the current wiki requires a lot of efforts on maintaining (every upgrade is a pain). There is also a lot of spam comes to wiki - many accounts requested per day, most of them are spambots, captcha doesn't help. The worst thing - the bots have learned to write a proper request profiles about opensource and development. Actually, current queue of wiki join requests is basically unmaintained. SO, Jekyll could be a better option, but someone will need to handle pull requests for it. That's all thoughts currently. Best Regards, K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
