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Hi DJ,
It's not clear what direction this thread is going -- it has discussion
of forks, plenty of users, but nobody stepping up as developers -- so in
case it leads to the list or project shutting down, I just wanted to say
thank you.
In the summer of 2011, between university semesters, I worked on the
conversion of the internal units of pcb from centi-mils to nanometers.
(And then later on a new gtk2 widget for the layer picker.) This was a
big project that touched most of the codebase, and I had never
contributed to an open-source project before, except maybe for drive-by
patches. I showed up on the ML without warning with a 5000-line patch.
You and Peter Clifton were very kind and polite and explained that
nobody is going to read a 5000-line patch from a stranger, and that I
should break the project into multiple well-motivated parts. Over the
course of the summer, with much hand-holding, I did this, and learned a
lot both about software development and the social aspects of FOSS.
That year the project received some small donations and DJ mailed me a
check for part of it, which was a very kind gesture. I regret cashing
it since in retrospect, the check was worth more as a keepsake than its
monetary value.
Best
Andrew
On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 11:35:49PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
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> No significant commits in years.
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> No releases in years.
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> Subprojects moving away, or forking.
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> Mailing lists are oddly quiet.
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> Risks are arising about dependencies on obsolete toolkits.
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> Nobody seems interested in maintaining it any more.
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> I'm contemplating pulling the plug on the 12 year old server and
> calling it a day.
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> Anyone want to argue otherwise? ;-)
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> (and if you do, you'll likely end up owning it ;)
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> DJ
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Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream
Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net
Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew
The sun is always shining in space
-Justin Lewis-Webster
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