Re: Is monotone dead, or is there a path forward?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 12:53:11AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> As people noted in last months / years... the worlds OS, apps,
> developers, and tech oriented operating system / repo / code / porters
> eyeballs users and interactors have more or less moved en masse
> to git, primarily on github, often augmented by running
> their own git copies in house if they are a large project.
> 
> It's unlikely under what is now an ecosystem settled
> into git, that any new talent or otherwise will bother
> trying to use monotone or any other repo to fetch
> patch hack commit etc on anyones code, regardless
> of whether that code is an OS, a repo, or an app.
> It's the language problem, if you are one speaking Z,
> in a world where everyone else speaks only A,
> you will need to adapt to them.
> 
> If monotone wants to survive in a compileable state
> across OS, to maintain an example presence that
> alternative repo embodiments are available that do run
> and can be studied and tried out, it needs at minimum...
> 
> a) A tarball release that compiles against the latest
> versions of all external libraries, and on the latest
> release of FreeBSD and Linux-Debian.
> 
> and
> 
> b) A github repo (and ticket system) that is considered an
> "upstream" that can be interacted with and that will accept
> maintenance patches from the OS and userspace.
> 
> and
> 
> c) Some public FYI blurb advert when doing those interactions,
> and in the topline of the toplevel README, that monotone is
> accepting new maintenance / dev people. No one lives or
> maintains forever, thus wise continually seek new eyballs and
> people in wherever the new places are.

I might be willing to step up here, but I'm not a youngster that
will carry maintenance into the far future.  I'm 74.

-- hendrik

> 
> Otherwise monotone dies.
> 
> If there are compilation and bug patches out there waiting to
> be applied, and tarballs with them needing cut, then someone
> or some group throwing a monotone continuance project up on
> github and working those things there is probably not a bad idea.
> 

There used to be a very usable publicly accessible site that kept
people's monotone databases online.  I used it to back up my own 
development repositories.

-- hendrik