Sorry I've been pretty much ignoring everything related to xboard. I just looked back at this thread as I'm in the middle of enabling Simon as a project administrator on Savannah.
H.G., do you still not have the password to push things to Savannah? Maybe we can force a password reset for you. Tangentially, I've started playing some chess again! I got interested in IM Eric Rosen's videos on YouTube and have been playing some on lichess.org. It has a really nice UI and features. It's quite an advance over where things were when I last played a real game online -- 20 years or so ago on chessclub.com or freechess.org. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:19 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the late response; I did not have much time to spend on computer > chess during the holidays. > > Just for the record: I have not been doing much development on XBoard > these past years, but I did some. Problem is that I had not done it for so > long that I forgot the password I needed to push things to Savannah. So the > most recent source code is only in my own on-line repository, at > http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi (v4.9.x branch). > > We should also have a version of XBoard upgraded to GTK 3, in some other > branch. It was never merged into the master branch, though. I am also not > sure if that version would be compilable on the VM I always use for XBoard > development (which runs Ubuntu 10.04). > > Note that WinBoard has its own build system, independent of the > auto-tools. Since Windows is not really variable, things like ./configure > really have no point there, and a makefile.gcc is included in the project > to build WinBoard on Cygwin. This should probably be changed, as modern C > compilers on Cygwin cannot do MinGW compiles anymore. But auto-tools is > certainly not the way; a new makefile for MSYS or a MinGW script would be > best. > > Regards, > H.G. > > > > > Op zo., dec. 27, 2020 om 23:07, Simon Scatton <[email protected]> > schreef: > > Hello, > > Thank you for responding to my previous message. > > I think at the moment there is nothing going on in regards to > development (last commit is almost 2 years ago). If you want to > contribute code I would say go for it ;) > > > > That’s cool ! I think I will try to get my head into the codebase since I > think it’s a good way to start learning on GNU projects. > > It would be great to see updates to newer GTK versions and better > integration across platforms or features you want to add. > > > > I’m planning on using the latests versions of GTK. GTK4 was released about > 2 weeks ago and it is really a nice piece of work. Merging both Microsoft > Windows and GNU/Linux projects would be really nice. > > There is currently also no project admin that could do a release, etc. > So that would be another job that is open. I can probably help a tiny > bit with this, but I don't really have time to work on xboard anymore. > > > > I can see myself trying to learn how to manage such project, and even > maintain the XBoard project if you can give me some guidelines on how to do > that, we maybe I could do this ? > > As far as contributing goes, there is some paperwork that needs to be > filled out with GNU projects in regards to code-contributions. Would > have to look up how that works again. > > > > I have no idea on what paperwork needs to be filled. I’ll look this up. > > Happy holidays! :) > > > > Happy Holidays to you too! > > I’ve also seen that the Winboard community is quite active, I’ll ask > around on the forum to see if anyone is interested in “revamping” XBoard. > > Thank you for your response and your time. > > Cheers > > Simon Scatton > > PS: Sorry for the blank email I sent you, it seems my inbox has gone crazy > or I simply just miss-clicked the email. Please ignore my previous email to > your personal mailbox. > >
