Hi,
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:31:35PM +0000, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 12:09 +0000, SebA wrote:
Many years ago, I pushed for Xymon to be moved from VCS to SVN to promote community contributions.
I think you meant CVS instead of VCS. VCS (Version Control System) is the general term for CVS, SVN, Git, Mercurial, etc.
Git, specifically GitHub, has replaced SVN as the best thing to promote community contributions, and I think it would be beneficial if the official Xymon code repos are migrated to GitHub.
Definitely, but it's also not the only thing which is needed for getting contributions from external contributors. It's also a social thing.
Reviewing and accepting contributions — or maybe even giving trustworthy contributors commit access is also necessary for a FLOSS project. But as far as I can tell, this happens in the Xymon project, although not on a daily base.
but github would allow the community to report issues,
SF does allow that, too, it's just not enabled for the Xymon project on SF. Example of an SF project where it is enabled: https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/bugs/
provide updates/patches via pull requests,
Exists on SF, too, example: https://sourceforge.net/p/nfsen/patches/
and download either released versions via the tags
Possible, too, example: https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tarball?path=/branches/4.3.27
if necessary or the latest code via the 'develop' (or whatever) branch.
https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tarball?path=/branches/4.x-master https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tarball?path=/trunk
Don't get me wrong: I think SF degraded from once the best place to host FLOSS to a website with tons of outdated trash and the most horrible UI I ever saw from a code hosting site. Not to mention that it is far too overladen with ads and popup.
My personal preference in VCS hosters is also GitHub as — from my point of view — they currently provide the best user experience. OTOH there might be some qualms about Github being not completely open source and being owned by Microsoft.
And with regards to being dead or not: Development greatly sped up when J.C. Cleaver took over release management, but it indeed seems to have stalled a little bit again. Then again, IIRC J.C. mostly took over release management so that Henrik can focus on long-time development. And if there is not much to fix in the current stable releases, not having a stable release every few months is not necessarily "dead", but might also be "stable, no relevant open issues".
(And yes, I'm still hoping and waiting for IPv6 support, too, especially in xymonnet-based checks. Reporting to IPv6-only servers is no issue though, if you anyways use stunnel to encrypt the client-reporting traffic.)
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