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Seeking a new maintainer
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R. Bernstein |
Subject: |
Seeking a new maintainer |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:40:38 -0400 |
Although I can't take on maintenance of ddd I would like to see the
3.3.12-test-6 version get released into the trunk. This branch started
3 years ago.
By now, I don't think there is anything "experimental" here and I
can't say that anyone has found a significant problem. The latest test
version from over a month ago which corrects a minor problem that was
noticed in using the Python debugger.
Andrew Gaylard writes:
> We are officially looking for a new person to take over as maintainer of
> DDD. When I began doing it back in 2003, my day-job permitted me to spend a
> percentage of time on it. That's no longer the case. As you can see, it's
> been over two years since the last release, and I'm worried that DDD is
> suffering from this lack of attention. So if you feel you are sufficiently
> (a) dedicated and (b) qualified to take over as maintainer, please let me
> know. Two possible projects might be of interest:
>
>
> - Add in functionality to display C++ standard containers
> (std::vector, std::map, et al). This is likely to require work on gdb too.
> - Move the DDD codebase to a modern widget-set. Motif is quite
> labour-intensive, which makes it unnecessarily hard to fix bugs and add
> new
> features. The fact that it's C-based means is isn't a good fit when the
> rest
> of the code-base is C++. It also doesn't match modern desktop
> environments.
> Using a modern toolkit such at gtkmm would be a great improvement to DDD.
> The work involved in this transition is not to be underestimated. DDD is a
> rich GUI app, and there is no clean separation of logic between the UI and
> the rest of the code.
>
> And of course, there's the usual stream (trickle, actually) of bug fixes to
> deal with. I estimate that you'll need to spend about 3 hours per week on
> bug-fixing and answering queries on the mailing list. That'll increase if
> you take on one of the challenges above (or one of your own, of course).
>
> Andrew.
> We are officially looking for a new person to take over as maintainer of
> DDD. When I began doing it back in 2003, my day-job permitted me to spend a
> percentage of time on it. That's no longer the case. As you can see,
> it's been over two years since the last release, and I'm worried
> that DDD is suffering from this lack of attention. So if you feel you are
> sufficiently (a) dedicated and (b) qualified to take over as maintainer,
> please let me know. Two possible projects might be of interest:<br>
> <br><ul><li>Add in functionality to display C++ standard containers
> (std::vector, std::map, et al). This is likely to require work on gdb
> too.</li><li>Move the DDD codebase to a modern widget-set. Motif is quite
> labour-intensive, which makes it unnecessarily hard to fix bugs and add new
> features. The fact that it's C-based means is isn't a good fit when
> the rest of the code-base is C++. It also doesn't match modern desktop
> environments. Using a modern toolkit such at gtkmm would be a great
> improvement to DDD. The work involved in this transition is not to be
> underestimated. DDD is a rich GUI app, and there is no clean separation of
> logic between the UI and the rest of the code. <br>
> </li></ul>And of course, there's the usual stream (trickle, actually) of
> bug fixes to deal with. I estimate that you'll need to spend about 3
> hours per week on bug-fixing and answering queries on the mailing list.
> That'll increase if you take on one of the challenges above (or one of
> your own, of course). <br>
> <br>Andrew.<br>
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