"Govind Salinas" <govind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The official posting can be seen at > http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/2008/04/announce-001prealpha.html > > Hey Everyone, For an announcement of a new project, I must say that it is *very* short on details on what Pyrite acutally is and what it does. I now know where to find it and some things about the project status, but I have no idea why I should be interested. I even followed the link above, but I still have no idea, although now I know that it has something to do with Mercurial as well. > I am proud to announce the first pre-release of Pyrite 0.01prealpha. You > can pull from git://gitorious.org/pyrite/mainline.git or > http://git.gitorious.org/pyrite/mainline.git ( I think I will use gitorious for > hosting since tuxfamily doesn't have an http clones, although I will > sort-of miss the RSS feed). > > Why such a timid name? This is because it has taken me longer than I > wanted to reach a point where I felt others could reasonably use and > contribute to the project. There is still much work to be done before it > is ready for a general purpose release. However, I need to see if > people are really interested in both helping develop and, more > importantly, using Pyrite and I feel that getting a release out there will > help me gauge that. > > When I started this project, I had a good idea of what I wanted to > accomplish but I wasn't entirely sure how I would do it. At this point I > have an idea of how the interface should be presented and I will work > to get it right. I hope people will have input on what improvements they > would like to see to the UI. > > Other things that I want to do before making a general purpose release > is to tie up some loose ends like proper rebasing and a graphical merge > tool (at least support for external merge tools). That's just the tip of the > iceberg though since I have plans to also do a gui and a web interface. > > Feel free to contact me about this if you are interested in using, testing > or developing. > > Thanks, > Govind. -- David Kågedal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
