Re: Is player dead?

I think that they already have melted down. The recent incident with SF taking over the GIMP Windows project and bundling adware in the installer was not an isolated incident.


Github would seem to be the logical choice at the moment, but I think that any migration destination should be driven by Rich's needs, to ensure he can maintain it easily.


Geoff


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From: Richard Vaughan <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Playerstage-developers] 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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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