Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-10-01 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
and it's the first day of hacktoberfest so get your fingers over to https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com to register then make four pull requests during october, and score a free 2020 hacktoberfest t-shirt update the LC IDE! improve something in the docs! make mobile datagrids work

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-24 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
It's almost here - Hacktoberfest 2020! And now registration is open https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com All you have to do is register, then make a total of four pull requests to any public repo during the month of October. Pull requests can be updating LiveCode's documentation, making a contrib

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-09 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
it's yours until you get a cease and desist letter. On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:06 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > That's really an old saying?? I came up with the saying People don't > change until it hurts not to. I thought I was being pithy. > > Bob S > >

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
That's really an old saying?? I came up with the saying People don't change until it hurts not to. I thought I was being pithy. Bob S > On Sep 3, 2020, at 13:40 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Like the old saying goes, "Change occurs when the pain of changing is finally > ex

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-03 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
True, focusing on the subset of issues in the IDE, leaving the engine work to the experts on the core team, would make the work much more actionable. The enthusiasm is good to see. I like the vision of a world where we all share one common engine and language, and have a wide range of IDE opt

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-03 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
it's not the engine, it's the ide portion, which is not binary. in addition, as it is a fork, it would be maintained in parallel with the LC version, so when LC releases an update, beta or otherwise to the ide, you would merge it into the fork, and review all the diffs. in some other projects, the

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mike Kerner wrote: > there isn't any reason why we can't have a fork of the ide that > doesn't sit around waiting for themuns to say "ok". I've considered this myself, but maintaining something as complex as LC's IDE is no small task. In fact, I'm finding it less time consuming to replace por

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-02 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
there isn't any reason why we can't have a fork of the ide that doesn't sit around waiting for themuns to say "ok". On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:36 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > H. good question Mark...I certainly don't want to do any work thats > goin

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-01 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
H. good question Mark...I certainly don't want to do any work thats going to sit there for a year+ Maybe someone from the mothership can give a yay or nay. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:55 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 8/27/20 9:05 AM, Mike Ker

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-08-31 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 8/27/20 9:05 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: Please discuss, here, add a repo and/or an update that you would like to see to a particular repo (include a link to the repo), and let's see if we can get a bunch of LC Hackers, this year. Kind of an exercise in futility, though, no? I

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-08-31 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
This year I believe I will have time to participate. Thanks for the reminder. On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:06 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It's just over a month away, this year's Hacktoberfest > If you have or know of a LC repo that would appreciate som

Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-08-27 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
It's just over a month away, this year's Hacktoberfest If you have or know of a LC repo that would appreciate some love, please put it here, and let's see if we can get some folks involved in participating in making the LC universe a better place. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, H