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From: | Jean Abou Samra |
Subject: | OLL |
Date: | Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:11:57 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 |
Hello All, Since Urs has stepped down from OLL work for personal reasons, as somebody who has written code for OLL, and contributed some snippets of some utility, I have been considering taking it all over. I have proposed to make a new domain openlilylib.space, move to Gitlab. establish a website on my personal Linux servers at my own expense, and add much more documentation and morenad try to communicate the use and utility of OLL to end users. I have written to a few of the members of the list and perhaps it is too soon but I have only heard back from one person. There have been no contributions for some time. And now suddenly the thread about licencing has risen again, a topic which I find absurd and I would refuse to countenance it for any OLL work ongoing that I would be doing. It seems that thread is trying to actively discourage OLL use. Like Urs, I get the impression that the effort on OLL is not worth the return, as hardly anybody seems to use it and there appears to be little interest. This is very disappointing. So, may I ask - it is worth me continuing the development and maintenance of OLL? Andrew [I am not prepared to discuss changes to GPL and anything related to licences.]
So, I think the situation has been summarized pretty well:
OLL is good,
it needs more documentation, and a lower barrier for
starting using it.
While I cannot help much with the documentation since I am
not familiar
with it in the first place, I have a long-standing project in
the back
of my mind to make it more accessible. I will open up to it when
(if)
I have a proof of concept ready.
In the mean time, while it might be true that few people are
using
OLL at the current time, I am still convinced that some of the
packages
are valuable and could grow.
It would be extremely helpful if you took over basic
maintenance.
Best,
Jean
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