On 02.04.14,16:27, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > Hello, > > seeing as we came yet again to standstill with new release, I would like > to volunteer myself as GNU Screen maintainer. > > Some of you may know that I maintain separate development tree on github > (https://github.com/amade/screen/tree/devel/src) in which I have a more > than 300 changes committed in comparison with official tree. So I may > as well do this officially ;) > Changes include: > * new features (256 colors in hardstatus, hardstatus on top, > truecolor, ...) > * removal of ancient code (removed most of #ifdef for ancient systems) > * removal of features which didn't seem useful or could be replaced > * rewrites of some functionality > * bug fixes > * code reformatting (the source is much more readable now). > Some of the removed things may need to be reintroduced, but that's what > development is about. Goal is to hear what features people want and to > get things going again. > > First thing I would do, would be releasing current git tree as > screen-4.1 also opening separate version 4 branch, only for bug fixes > so distributions have something recent to base their packages on. > Next step would be merging my 'devel' branch into master and start > developing version 5. > > Comments, suggestions, alternative solutions? >
I think this is a great idea, Then we would get version 4.1 released, and get more active development as well. It is way due to release a new version now. Amedeusz: Do you suggest that all new development should be in the github tree that you now maintain? I would think that is more effective than what is at savannah now. Jostein
