[referencer] Anyone interested in maintaining referencer?

[John Spray]

I support this in principle.  I will be offline rest of week, will try to
catch up after that.

John

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Dalsgaard <
andreas.dalsgaard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In response to the inquiry for a maintainer to Referencer, a friend of
> mine and I would like to volunteer for co-maintainership, or what
> would fit best. We wrote a mail to John this Sunday but he seems to be
> busy. Since we have become aware that at least one other person is
> working on referencer* we have decided to send this mail to the list.
>
> We both have a background in computer science and have used Referencer
> extensively and expect to continue to use Referencer in our current
> work in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg
> University(Denmark).
>
> To familiarise ourself with the code we have have made a few patches:
>  * Fix some simple bugs (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/referencer/+bug/581811 )
>  * Scrolling to the current selection, when visibility changes.
>  * Moved author string to same line as year in icon-view
>  * Enhance the genkey plugin with title and first word of title
>  * Start port to GIO/Gvfs
>  * Do not store filename attribute to get clean diff's when storing
> the referencer file in a repository.
>
> If anyone is interested, you can checkout our hg branch (with most of
> the patches) at http://diverse.smartere.dk:8000/
>
> Our future plans is to add the following features:
>  * Better support for more reflibs, e.g. drag-and-drop between windows
>  * Better support for collaborating, e.g. fancy Telepathy collaboration
>  * Hierarchial tags
>
> Depending upon what other peoples plans are we have talked about
> moving the source repository to bzr in launchpad, as we are more
> familiar with bzr than hg and bugs and translations are already there.
> This would also allow us to easily create a PPA.
>
> Best regards Mads Chr. Olesen and Andreas E. Dalsgaard
>
> *http://github.com/adamplumb/referencer/commits/master/
>
> On 26 February 2010 11:44, John Spray <jcspray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Lately I have not had time to deal with any issues around referencer.
> This
> > is unlikely to change in the near future, so if anyone is interested in
> > stepping in to maintain the software, please contact me.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
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