Seeking a new maintainer

[R. Bernstein]

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&#39;s C-based means is isn&#39;t a good fit when 
 > the rest of the code-base is C++. It also doesn&#39;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&#39;s the usual stream (trickle, actually) of 
 > bug fixes to deal with. I estimate that you&#39;ll need to spend about 3 
 > hours per week on bug-fixing and answering queries on the mailing list. 
 > That&#39;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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