Re: SN Status update [Was: where can I find current src]

["Berek Half-hand" <berek@usa.net>]

Ian, thanks for levelling with us. I hate to see Red Hat walk away from
SourceNav; it has such great potential. Too bad they don't see any money in
it. They should have left it with Cygnus.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Roxborough" <irox@redhat.com>
To: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson@yahoo.com>
Cc: <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: SN Status update [Was: where can I find current src]


> Reid Thompson wrote:
> > can someone point me to a site/url that has current
> > development src or binary development releases?    Or
> > is April the latest code?
>
> Short story:- There is no development release.
>
> Long story:- I managed to find time to do some bug
> fixes (mainly annoying GUI problems) over the summer, and
> would like to do another release some time over the next
> few months.  All work on Source-Navigator is voluntary, that
> means I don't get paid for this.  Also currently I'm the
> only person/maintainer actively working on Source-Navigator.
>
> Please don't relate any Source-Navigator development I do to
> Red Hat (as some people point out, they don't care right now).
> Red Hat is kind enough to provide the host sources.redhat.com
> and bandwidth for Source-Navigator project (amongst many other
> projects).
>
> Some things I'm planning to do:
>
> 1) Put all the Source-Navigator (And Tcl/Tk/Itcl/Tix/etc.) code in
>    CVS on sources.redhat.com.
>
> 2) Beg for help, otherwise we will not see another Source-Navigator
>    release.   I'm not joking,  I can make source tar ball snapshots
>    easily enough, but I can't do a SN5.1 release without help
>    (testing being the main area I'd like help in).  I don't have a
>    lot of time for this and I don't expect other people to contribute
>    more time than I will, even with help a doing a release will take
>    a while. More on this once I get SN into CVS.
>
> 3) Giving people CVS write access? would any body want it or use it?
>
> 4) Been a while since we had any T-shirts....
>
> This is all one step at a time (and probably over a lot of time),
> anyway nothing will happen unless I do step 1.
>
> Thanks to all who have answered emails, reported, bugs, said nice
> things, sent in patches, looked at code, downloaded SN, etc..
> you have helped get us this far. :-)
>
> Anyway, I'm letting you people know what is up in Source-Navigator
> land,  I'm not complaining about anything, I'm not whining at
> people for not helping me.  I enjoy working on SN, I just don't
> have the time or the people I'd like to do work on it.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Ian.
>
>