On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:27 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > As the subject says - there have been no updates recently, so is it > still useful?
I don't know. This was one of the many things I tried to see if I could grow a community here. My original thought was to structure whimsy as a number of small tools and encourage people to start with only what they needed to run that one tool. If I remember correctly, Brett has made use of the Vagrantfile in the board agenda directory. Since then, more completely documenting how to install the entire whimsy tree locally on Mac OS/X (as opposed to in a Virtual machine) has proven more successful in getting first Craig, then Shane, and now John set up. My inclination is that the whimsy/vagrant can indeed be removed (it was intended to help set up the secretary/workbench tool, but that tool has since been rewritten); but I'd like to keep the vagrant and docker setup in the board agenda tool a bit longer. Note that I don't expect that many of the tools will run well natively on Windows, and I don't expect that any of the existing active developers on the Whimsy PMC are set up to help with such an effort (I certainly am not). Docker and/or Vagrant instructions may become important if there are any individuals who develop on Microsoft Windows who are interested in contributing. - Sam Ruby
