From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,60cf103f8ae4940d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.wiretrip.org!feeder4.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!posting.tweaknews.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OpenToken References: <48acd484$0$24596$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <9ceb2207-6a3d-407c-84dc-885bfaa07ec1@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1237c2d1-2e12-47e1-868d-47bcb5768266@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <4fe38d08-25fb-4d9b-abf7-3103b5370dd6@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <87abetl1t5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:40:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87ljxxjjhd.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GD+QTBlDpf+E8AqQ33/CRacWVQQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tele2 X-Trace: DXC=jPVU_:Rf=A6j2jjaMWdkJ?6`Y6aWje^Y:KK1S\Re Ted Dennison, the author of OpenToken, reappeared yesterday on the AWS mailing list and I took the opportunity to send him an email which he allowed me to reproduce here for the benefit of all interested. The conversation is below. Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Hi Ted, > > Are you the author of OpenToken? There has been a discussion on > comp.lang.ada starting at [1] about adopting it for future > maintenance. As it turns out, Stephe Leake is willing to take it > over. I'd like to know if you were aware of this and of the fact > that, over the years sicne you released 3.0b, several people sent you > patches which you never acknowledged. Do you approve of someone else > taking over? > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/ef40447ce799fba1 Ted Dennison replied: > I'm unaware of the talk. I am quite aware that I've been sent a few > patches that I never had time to incorporate, and that it's not being > actively developed. The birth of my second child pretty much killed all > the free time I had to do such things. I now have a third, so the free > time situation is even worse. > > I certainly approve, heartily, of anyone taking over development of it. > The whole point of licensing it the way I did was so that such things > could happen. > > One suggestion I would make to people would be to use a public source > code repository. Among other things, that would make it much easier to > distribute the burden of testing and incorporating patches. If I were > starting such a project today, I'd definitely use Git for revision > control. It works fine in Windows now, and Git makes forking around > developers who get busy/lazy and drop out (such as myself) nearly > trivial. I believe Savannah supports it, as do a few other lesser-known > public hosting sites: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitHosting. and then in a second email: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> Thanks a lot. Can I forward your reply to comp.lang.ada for the >> benefit of all? > > Certainly. > >> The agreement is to use Ada-France's monotone server. Monotone is >> also distributed, like git, but simpler to use, and it is written with >> the Ada attitude whereas C is written with the C attitude :) > > Interesting. I'll have to look into that. I just imported OpenToken versions 2.0 and 3.0b into the Ada-France database under the branch name "org.opentoken". You can browse it at http://www.ada-france.org:8081/branch/changes/org.opentoken Stephe Leake, feel free to send me your monotone key so I can grant you write permission on the database. -- Ludovic Brenta.