[referencer] Referencer development?

[John Spray]

Hey,

Good to see this discussion starting up again.  To clarify my position, I don't mind whether something is merged before or after moving repositories.  Hopefully no action is required from me other than closing down the old hosting once the new hosting is in place.  So please don't wait for me!

John

On 9 Mar 2011, at 14:01, Matej Urbas wrote:

> Hi Glen,
> 
> I think we are waiting for someone to take the current master (from
> here: http://hg.icculus.org/jcspray/referencer/), open a new public
> repository (by importing the master -- with the entire history) and give
> developers push/committing rights.
> 
> However, I believe John wanted to merge everything into master before
> relocating the repository or changing the VCS. I think this will prove a
> bit tricky -- especially because other things are keeping John quite
> busy.
> 
> I think merging before relocating/changing is a good option though.
> 
> So the first step should be that someone creates a temporary Mercurial
> clone of the master, provide everyone on the mailing list (who has
> anything to merge) with push rights and open a merge window (limited
> amount of time) -- obviously, the latter is not necessary if we don't
> migrate from Mercurial to any other VCS.
> 
> Anyways, I think we haven't yet decided which versioning system to use,
> am I right?
> 
> Maybe this would be a good time to cast our votes. What do you think
> people? Shall we start a poll on the mailing list and see which VCS gets
> the most votes? We have to set an end date -- say end of March?
> 
> If you're okay with the poll idea, I'll send an e-mail titled
> "Repository Relocation Poll" and explain what we vote for. Everyone
> should bring forth arguments for their candidate VCS.
> 
> Note to developers: You can still do your development in your private
> clones for the time being.
> 
> Best,
> ---
> Matej
> 
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:20 +1100, Glen Shennan wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have just read with interest the most recent (I think?) archive
>> posts regarding the hand over and possible future of development of
>> Referencer but I note that there appears to have been no new posts in
>> a couple of weeks.  Or have I just missed something?  Is the
>> development of Referencer continuing?  Did a host get chosen?  I think
>> it's the best reference management program I've yet used, I've been
>> using it for years, so it'd be great to see it live.  I'm happy to
>> offer my limited best to help in this regard but certainly don't have
>> the expertise to do this myself.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Glen S
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