[screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Amadeusz Sławiński
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

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:27:53PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > seeing as we came yet again to standstill with new release, I would like > to volunteer myself as GNU Screen maintainer. > [...] > Comments, suggestions, alternative solutions? I happened upon Amadeusz' development branch a n

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Jostein Berntsen
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/d

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2014-04-02 Thread Rafal Maszkowski
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > On more pragmatic note, I've a lot of changes in my repository > (https://github.com/amade/screen - look at devel branch as it's more > recent) so I would like to avoid porting them back to "official" one. > Though I will underst

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:27:53PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > 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

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 02.04.14,18:43, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:27:53PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > 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 committ

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Neal Fultz
This sounds great; I was very impressed with how quick you merged my patch in last week. I've been using your branch since then and been quite happy with it. I'd actually made that patch last summer and sat on it just because the project seemed totally dead; the releases have been glacial, even by

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Jo, On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:57:39PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: [Axel prefers Savannah over GitHub] > Many valid points there, Axel, and they are important to consider. Thanks. > But it might seem like the development at the savannah repository is > a bit abandonded or have stalled, and

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Amadeusz Sławiński
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 18:43:16 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:27:53PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > 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 30

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Neal Fultz
I wrote a patch last summer for configuring the caption bar, and sat on it because I'd assummed the project was dead. 4.0.3 is from 2008, and the only traffic I saw on this list was one person asking how to change their background. amade took my patch and merged it in the same day I sent it to h

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 02.04.14,19:31, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Jo, > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:57:39PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > [Axel prefers Savannah over GitHub] > > Many valid points there, Axel, and they are important to consider. > > Thanks. > > > But it might seem like the development at the savan

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Amadeusz, thanks for the calm reply despite my maybe still a little bit heated mail. :-) On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > > > * removal of ancient code (removed most of #ifdef for ancient > > > systems) > > > > Not happy. > > > > I fear that this may cause

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:14:13PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > On 02.04.14,19:31, Axel Beckert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:57:39PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > > > But it might seem like the development at the savannah repository is > > > a bit abandonded or have stalled, an

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Mahood
On Apr 2, 2014 1:46 PM, "Amadeusz Sławiński" wrote: > zmodem - according to wiki some ancient file transfer protocol You had me until you exposed your [lack of] age. :-) Just kidding, of course. I welcome your enthusiasm and suggest we call to arms anyone else interested in filling this role t

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Amadeusz Sławiński
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 21:27:27 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: > > > > * removal of features which didn't seem useful or could be > > > > replaced > [...] > > > Please list which features you removed, so that people at least > > > have a chance to object. > [...] > > From fast comparing between source fil

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:11:27AM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > Ok, from those comments and other mails clearly there are some people > who use most of this stuff (maybe except for zmodem ;). I just have a rough idea of how zmodem transfer works (and no idea how screen handles them), bu

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Gerwitz
[Sent this message originally from the wrong e-mail address---moderators, you can delete the one from the other address.] On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:57:48AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > It was just a matter of running it at some point through reformatting > > utility, the only minus is (mention

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:11:27AM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote: > I can spend time separating patches into something that can be > acceptable for official tree without breaking existing functionality. You have a lot of commit history that I'd hate to see separated into patches---I'd rather see

Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer

2014-04-02 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:57:48AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > It was just a matter of running it at some point through reformatting > > utility, the only minus is (mentioned in previous talks about release) > > that one loses commit history. > > Hrm. How lossy will that be? > > Do you mean "c