Re: keeping monotone dvcs aline

[grarpamp]

> Grarpamp, I just discovered monotone last year while searching for a
> minimalist no-bullshit dvcs, and promptly became quite fond of it. Sadly
> it seems like it's on the verge of death. Would you or anyone else you
> know be interested in collaborating to get Lapo Luchini's 1.2dev branch
> compiling on OpenBSD again?

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Which branchname do you refer to?

The most recent revs in the whole repo since 2020 are...

1) net.venge.monotone.lapo.pcre842:337d3afac2b27897945521c80d0bce3a88e815b9
2) net.venge.monotone.lapo.botan2:2ce921ea3f36ba57fe832b3a48541f7bdee23ed8

Will try to test the recent work mailpost about:
".lapo.pcre842 on FreeBSD (14.0-RELEASE-p1)".

Maybe try that to get closer to OpenBSD for you?

I may have suggested some continuance paths for projects before,
some parts of which may be useful here or not applicable...
- Establish an open code repo somewhere (preferably with a ticket tracker)
 so people can commit whatever works. Doesn't have to be self hosted,
 but can be (even on tor / i2p if need be). Plenty of public git sites to
 choose from. (And if you want a monotone repo, you'd have to host that.)
- Archive all the historical web docs and mail content there in some files.
- Make some various continuance announcements to old and new
 channels, forums, lists, etc.
- Collect and apply all unapplied patches from dev and user lists, and
 from the ports systems of each BSD and Linux OS.
- Move the project forward on a roadmap from there.
There are a number of good software projects that grew deadlike, for which
any volunteers should not hesitate to move over to a new continuance.


As for monotone... you'd probably want to...
- Get to a "compiles and works" release on a current popular BSD and Linux.
- Get it back into those two package repos, say FreeBSD and Linux Arch.
 That would give a popular binary to bootstrap more users / devs.
 A static compiled linux binary might help across linux.
- Export something to github for eyeballs.
- Update to botan3 to ensure some good lifetime therein,
 and update all other library dependencies to their latest versions.
- Cut another public release.
- Add it back into more repos.

Some repos are here, but all use old botan...

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/monotone
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/monotone/
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/devel/monotone?id=0d7cb34dd52d41b20e82c966d9613c5521c2659c
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/devel/monotone/
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/monotone
https://repology.org/project/monotone/related