[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Offer for help on the usage of google project page

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:03:07 -0600

Eitan,

I'm glad the community is finally taking over some of these tasks. If I 
had my druthers, I would stick to just programming. FYI, I've been 
having some health problems for the last few months, but they seem to 
have fixed themselves now.

John

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:20:22PM +0200, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> Excellent!
> 
> I am glad you stepped up to this. John, I hope you have it in you to
> delegate. You put together a great community of users and contributors,
> everybody has their experience and skills, you don't need to know everything
> in order to run a successful project.  I see many tasks that can be done by
> more than one person:
> 
> 1. Development.
> 2. Table authoring.
> 3. Maintaining (bug triaging).
> 4. Releasing.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Eitan.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Christian Egli 
> <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 06:03 -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > I am still trying to get up to speed on the
> > > code.google pages.
> >
> > I would like to encourage the use of subversion and the google project
> > page. This would ease the collaboration. Specifically with the automake
> > problem that we had I could have helped more easily as I could have just
> > looked at the code from subversion without sending tar balls back and
> > forth. Also the maintenance of the documentation (the texinfo file)
> > would be easier, as I could presumably just apply the changes
> > independently. I have a few changes that I would like to get applied.
> >
> > I would like to offer my help. I could imagine to take care of the whole
> > release building process as Eitan outlined it in a post[1]. This would
> > mean that when John decides that he is ready for a release all he would
> > have to do is check everything into subversion and I could take care of
> > drudgeries such as tagging svn, optionally even do a make dist and
> > finally uploading the tar ball to the google project page.
> >
> > If there is anything I could do to help I'd be happy to assist.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> > [1]
> > //www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/Subversion-workflow-and-releases
> > --
> > Christian Egli
> > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
> >
> > For a description of the software and to download it go to
> > http://www.jjb-software.com
> >

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