Re: Is player dead?

Seconding Brian's answer. Player and Stage are mature and in maintenance
mode. Rich is accepting patches that fix bugs, etc. but may not respond as
quickly as in past years. The code remains available and always will.

By the way, we might want to migrate Player away from SourceForge before
they melt down completely.

Richard/


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Brian Gerkey <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi Fred,
>
> It's awesome to hear that you're still using Player.  We put a lot of
> effort into that tool for many years.
>
> It's fair to say that Player is no longer under active development,
> but that doesn't mean that it's dead.  I handed over responsibility
> for Player to the very capable Rich Mattes several years ago, when I
> turned my attention to ROS.  I think that Rich is still applying
> patches.  Looks like this is the place to submit them:
>   http://sourceforge.net/p/playerstage/patches/
>
> brian.
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Fred Labrosse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Sorry for the blunt question, but do I sense that player is dying?
> >
> > I’m asking because I am still using it, but see very little traffic on
> either mailing list and very few commits made to the svn repository.  I
> have a few diffs to submit that have to do with ptz interfaces and the
> sonyevid30 driver and I was wondering if there was any point in submitting
> them.
> >
> > Player has been very useful to me for many years, and I would hate
> seeing it disappear, especially since changing to something else, such as
> ROS, would be quite some work for me to port some of our player code to the
> new system.
> >
> > Any views on that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
> >
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