Mar 15 2006

Virtue’s sourceforge presence

OK, the “Abandoned Project Takeover” (APT) has been approved at sf​.net, and I’m now co-​admin of the Virtue Desktops project there with Thomas (playback). I’ve sent an e-​mail to Thomas wanting his final blessing to go ahead with the update and takeover, but Mr. Staller has been incommunicado for a while now so I think we’ll just power ahead.

Here’s where I start to need help. Virtue deserves a community — you guys are that community. I don’t have the time to maintain the community and to continue developing Virtue — my full-​time job takes up too much of my energy. Wanna help? I want your help.

Here’s what I need: people who are willing to help me update the <http://​virtuedesk​tops​.source​forge​.net/> site, help me move the appcast there and begin sifting through the bug reports and feature requests. It’s not glamorous work, but it needs doing.

And before you ask, yes, I do want development help, but I would like to start up the mailing lists again to discuss architecture again first — all of the good OSS projects I know of have strong (dictatorial) leadership — I’m going to follow suit for the moment.

Update: After all that effort, Sourceforge’s services were sub-​par in certain areas. The VirtueDesktops project has moved to new hosting at cocoaforge, which is graciously provided by imajes.

Comments

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Very good stuff.

I&apos;m assum­ing Thomas would be heartily wel­comed back if he should so choose.

Does this mean the sources will be pub­lished? Not that I want them, but more to make sure some­one else can pick up where you left off if you should give up on it, or per­haps even help while you&apos;re still into it :)

Btw: Still no workie on Intel.

/​Eirik

Posted by ltning on

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Thomas will always be wel­come back. It is his project :)

Add to that, his copy­right is on every source file in the VIrtue tree!

Yes, the source will be posted, and yes, as I men­tioned in the post­ing I do want help — I just plan on being a bit strict about archi­tec­ture and the like.

Posted by Tony Arnold on

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Spot on about the best OSS projects hav­ing dic­ta­to­r­ial lead­ers =D

But, what are you ask­ing for us to do here? You want us to join the mail­ing lists on SF?

Posted by Adrian Sim­mons on

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More specif­i­cally, go join the mail­ing lists for virtue&apos;s source­forge project. Get them started again so we can talk about it&apos;s future, what&apos;s wrong with it (hope­fully what&apos;s right with it too!).

<http://​source​forge​.net/​p​r​o​j​e​c​t​s​/​v​i​r​t​u​e​d​e​s​k​tops/>

Posted by Tony Arnold on

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thanks and congrats!

Posted by chris on

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Very good move!

Posted by pgrilo on

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There is only one mail­ing list — virtuedesktops-​announce — which doesn&apos;t seem like the ideal place for dis­cus­sion. I&apos;ve signed up, but does it even allow post­ing by any­one but admin?

I think a Virtue-​Discuss, Virtue-​Users or Virtue-​Devel list would be bet­ter, no?

I&apos;m also now “mon­i­tor­ing” the two forums (what­ever that means). But SF​.net is way to slow to make forums a viable medium for dis­cus­sion IMNSHO.

I&apos;ll test post to virtuedesktops-​announce…

Posted by Adrian Sim­mons on

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My post to virtuedesktops-​announce is “await­ing mod­er­a­tor approval”. I think we need a list cre­at­ing specif­i­cally for discussion…

Posted by Adrian Sim­mons on

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We should have an irc chan­nel for the com­mu­nity. I have started chan­nel #virtue on irc​.freen​ode​.net Join in!

Posted by Matt on

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Ok so now I&apos;m sub­scribed to:

<http://​lists​.source​forge​.net/​l​i​s​t​s​/​l​i​s​t​i​n​f​o​/​v​i​r​t​u​e​d​e​s​k​t​o​p​s​-​d​e​v​e​l​o​pment>

and

<http://​lists​.source​forge​.net/​l​i​s​t​s​/​l​i​s​t​i​n​f​o​/​v​i​r​t​u​e​d​e​s​k​t​o​p​s​-​users>

irc is also good.

Posted by Adrian Sim­mons on

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I&apos;ve been check­ing in on the irc chan­nel, but no-​one is there… oh well. Source​Forge​.net is now up and run­ning — the code is avail­able, and 0.52r87 is avail­able in file releases. Full steam ahead I guess!

Posted by Tony Arnold on

Sorry, this conversation has finished.

This post is a bit old now, so I've closed the conversation. If you're keen to keep talking about it, please email me directly.