Re: Is player dead?

Hi all,

First, yes, I am still maintaining Player and I'm happy to accept 
patches and field bug reports.  It's not under active development 
anymore, but it's not dead by any means.  I've been chipping away at 
things here and there, like updating drivers to support new library 
versions and updating the xdr and interface generation scripts to work 
with python 3.

I'm glad this thread has popped up, as I've been thinking about the 
sourceforge hosting situation for the past few days, and  addressing it 
has been quickly moving up my to-do list.  About a year or two ago I 
worked out the proper git-svn incantation and username/email address 
mappings to export the entire Player svn repository history into git. 
I'll try to dig that up again and see if I can get the tree and the 
history into git locally.

Github and Bitbucket are both good choices for a new host, though I lean 
towards github because it's a lot more popular.  My gameplan is to set 
up a github organization called "playerproject" to host the code under, 
and create a "player" repository underneath for the Player code.  Once I 
push the git tree, I'll add whichever of you would like to be part of 
the new github org and look at migrating the issues, wiki, website, api 
docs, etc. from sf and tagging a 3.1 release under the new 
infrastructure.  I don't have a lot of time for the rest of this month, 
but I think I can at least get the code moved, and worry about the rest 
once I get some more free time.

Rich

On 06/10/2015 07:05 PM, BiggsGeoffrey wrote:
> 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]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 11 June 2015 3:04 a.m.
> *To:* [email protected]
> *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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