[darcs-devel] status of darcsden repo
Simon Michael
simon at joyful.com
Fri Feb 21 18:26:19 UTC 2020
On 2/21/20 4:05 AM, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> If Ganesh feels motivated to keep darcsden working with latest darcs,
> I feel motivated, too!
Oops! I mean both of you. I was still thinking of my earlier
conversation with Ganesh.
> Demand from paying customers, and a transformation in darcs' future
>> prospects, could possibly change that. For years now I haven't been able
>> to read either of these things. :) Contacting darcs hub users and
>> exploring funding is something I could do, but it's a big costly task.
>> And whether Darcs could rise again is.. unclear.
> I agree. I think funding is perhaps not needed. As I said, I am willing
> to do most of the work, I just need someone who is able to test my
> changes. I am not talking about new functionality, just refactorings, so
> testing is limited to checking that everuthing "still works as expected".
We're FOSS developers, so I'm sure we'll manage it.
However, playing devil's advocate: "Just test my changes" sounds easy
but potentially means repeated code review, testing, troubleshooting,
discussion, deploying. That's not insignificant work. I think we should
ask, what's the purpose of doing it ? Darcs hub is working. Essentially
no-one is asking for changes. It's not clear where Darcs is going. What
problem are we solving, for whom ?
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