Hi Ulrich, and thanks again for your recent work for wxCode. Of course empty components make little sense, but I would not delete outdated ones --always had a hard time throwing old things away! To help users sort obsolete code from maintained one, we could: - introduce an option to not display them in the 'component search' of the website - use some CSS markup or a special field in the component list to issue a warning The criteria for obsolescence could be for instance: (wxWidget version < 2.8) || (no maintainer)
I do not understand the reason for the shell/website access restrictions, it makes your job harder, but was there an issue ? At any rate I hope I still have access :-) Cheers, Ronan On 16/02/2011 00:44, Ulrich Telle wrote: > Since I received some complaints about the current state of wxCode I > started to inspect the components hosted by wxCode. > > All in all there are 91 components listed in the wxCode database. > > I detected 6 *empty* components for which never code was being uploaded: > > wxCoolBar (4 years) > wxMemoryMappedFile (4 years) > wxUML (8 months) > wxAudio (5 years) > wxBetterDialog (6 years) > wxDom (5 years) > > If noone objects I'm going to delete those "components". > > Then there are currently 22 officially unmaintained components. Several > of them are in fact outdated, i.e. last supported wxWidgets version 2.4. > IMHO several of them clutter wxCode without being of pratical use anymore. > > At last there are quite a few (about 40 to be precise) components which > don't seem to be actively maintained anymore as the highest supported > wxWidgets version stated in their description is 2.4 or 2.6. From my > point of view it's understandable that several visitors of wxCode feel > disappointed. > > What should we do with these components? I'm open to suggestions. > > CVS update: In the meantime I set the wxCode CVS to read-only access. 5 > of 20 maintainers of prior CVS hosted components gave mainly positive > feedback. > > Additonally I restricted shell and website access to those maintainers > which actively upload for example the documentation of their components. > Feel free to contact me in case website access needs to be restored. > > Regards, > > Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ wxCode-users mailing list wxCode-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxcode-users
