FYI: -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Alexander Færøy <ahf@xxxxxxx> > To: irssi-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, irssi-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Irssi Staff <staff@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: The Future of Irssi > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:27:11 +0200 > > Hello, > > > Irssi hasn't been under active development for the last few years. We > want to > change that. To make it easier for new contributors to get involved > and stick > around, we moved to where most open source contributors are spending > their > time: the source is now maintained on Github. > > > Contribution Model > ================== > > > The repositories that are currently available at svn.irssi.org will, > over a > period of the next month, be migrated to our newly created Github > organization > (https://github.com/irssi). This means that no new commits will be > made to our > Subversion repositories and the Git repositories available on Github > are from > today the official way of getting the source code of Irssi. The > primary Irssi > client repository has already been migrated to Github and is available > at > https://github.com/irssi/irssi > > > We will, starting today, expect contributors to fork the official > Irssi > repositories on Github, do their changes on a feature branch, and > submit Github > pull requests to us. The team will then review your changes and > hopefully, > together, we will be able to get your code into the official Irssi > repository. > This will make getting your contributions reviewed and merged smoother > and it > has the added benefit that your patches appears to be coming from you > which in > turn is helping to make the gap between being a core developer and a > contributor close to non-existing. > > > Issue Tracking > ============== > > > This is one of the more controversial changes. Over time, you guys > have > submitted tons of bugs to our bug tracker at bugs.irssi.org only to > see them > rot. > > > We will, starting today, stop using bugs.irssi.org and use Github's > issue > tracker instead. > > > We have decided **not** to do any automated migration of the > bugs.irssi.org > database. We realize that if we migrate everything over to Github, > 1:1, it will > only end up rotting in two bug trackers rather than in just one. > > > We hope to see interested contributors help us checking which bugs > that are > still affecting Irssi and resubmit them to our Github issue tracker. > > > We will manually go over opened bugs that contains patches to ensure > that no > code is left behind in the old tracker. > > > The bug tracker will remain online as a reference, but we will > redirect to > Github for people interested in reporting bugs. > > > Scripts > ======= > > > Submitting scripts is historically something you guys have been good > at. > > > The way submitting scripts is currently done is that you write an > email to > scripts@xxxxxxxxx and someone from our team will manually add the > script to the > website. We're well aware that we've lagged behind requests to add new > scripts > and update existing ones so we're hoping to improve that too. > > > From now on, new scripts **must** be submitted, in a pull request, to > the > irssi/scripts repository (https://github.com/irssi/scripts). The > repository > contains a description on how to contribute. > > > This will make it much easier for our contributors to both add and > maintain > their scripts in the repository. It will also make it a lot easier for > us to > review and get code into the repository. > > > Scriptassist Users > ================== > > > For users using `scriptassist.pl`, you can start using the new > repository right > away using: > > > /set scriptassist_script_sources > http://ghscripts.irssi.org/scripts.dmp > > > Otherwise, you can wait a month and the website will be migrated and > everything > should be working as usual, without you having to touch anything. > > > Official IRC Channels > ===================== > > > We are moving the official development and user support channel to > `#irssi` on > freenode. Historically, we have had our official development channel > on IRCnet, > a social channel on EFnet and a user support channel on freenode, but > we > realize it makes more sense to keep everything together at freenode. > > > Closing Words > ============= > > > The changes to our contribution model will also affect people who are > pulling > from Subversion or scripts.irssi.org automatically. > > > **Access to our Subversion repositories will be revoked and the move > of > scripts.irssi.org to the new Github site will happen on July 31st, > 2014.** > Until then, neither of the two systems will be maintained and no new > content > will be published there. > > > Until the migration to Github is completed, you can find our official > script > repository at http://ghscripts.irssi.org/. tomaw will continue being > in charge > of scripts and will happily review your pull requests on Github. > > > Feel free to reach out to anyone within the development team for > questions, > comments or ideas. We are hanging out in the #irssi channel on > freenode, EFnet > and IRCnet. You can contact us using email at staff@xxxxxxxxx. You are > also > welcome to PM me directly for questions; I am `ahf` on most of the > larger IRC > networks. > > > On behalf of the Irssi development team, > Alex. > > > -- > Alexander Færøy > -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
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