Matt & List;
All projects need a maintainer, and an advocate. But not all projects
need new features or extensions. I get the feeling that that's where
TRPlayer resides. It's mature. It does what it needs to do. It does it
well.
There's no need for new features, just a need to make sure it is
"kept alive" with new releases of the OS, libraries & RealPlayer.
If the web hosting location is a problem, it can be moved to
http://sourceforge.net for free.
Think along the lines of "how do we keep it alive" not
"someone needs to take over the project".
You've given birth to a valuable tool, and nurtured it to maturity. We
all thank you for that. Now it's just a matter of making sure your
investment in time is useful for the longest possible period of time.
-Bryce
Matthew Campbell wrote:
>
> As many of you know, I haven't made any significant improvements to
> TRPlayer for at least a few months. I don't use it very much, and
> when I do, it does what I want it to do just fine. Also, I'm sure
> there are programmers much more skilled than me that could add useful
> features to TRPlayer and perhaps fix some bugs. Finally, there are
> some other projects that I'd like to work on, once I'm done with this
> semester in college.
>
> So, would anyone like to take over the TRPlayer project? If so, I
> would greatly appreciate it. If not, I'll get back to it sometime,
> but for the reasons I mentioned above, I'm probably not the best
> person for the project.
>
> If you're interested, please reply to the list, and I'll talk with you
> privately about what we need to do to transfer ownership of TRPlayer.
> I'd be willing to explain any parts of the code or the RealPlayer SDK
> that you don't understand, and I'm still willing to maintain the
> Debian package, which is difficult to do if you don't actually run the
> Debian Linux distribution.
>
> I hope you won't think that I'm being overly selfish about this, but
> I'm not really motivated to work on TRPlayer anymore, and for the good
> of TRPlayer and its users, I think it should be improved and
> maintained by someone who is motivated to work on it.
>
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