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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:
>=20
> No significant commits in years.
>=20
> No releases in years.
>=20
> Subprojects moving away, or forking.
>=20
> Mailing lists are oddly quiet.
>=20
> Risks are arising about dependencies on obsolete toolkits.
>=20
> Nobody seems interested in maintaining it any more.
>=20
> I'm contemplating pulling the plug on the 12 year old server and
> calling it a day.
>=20
> Anyone want to argue otherwise?  ;-)
>=20
> (and if you do, you'll likely end up owning it ;)
>=20
> DJ
>=20

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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
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