From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Berek Half-hand" To: "Ian Roxborough" , "Reid Thompson" Cc: Subject: Re: SN Status update [Was: where can I find current src] Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:27:00 -0000 Message-id: <001101c145e7$4e2b0a50$36850a0a@west.unispherenetworks.com> References: <20010925132125.7911.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com> <3BB0B50C.4B2B6F36@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00178.html 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" To: "Reid Thompson" Cc: 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. > >