I was sort of curious about how active this community is.
- News sidebar: 2022, 2022, 2021. So it’s not dead.
- “Development”. Stuff about policies and getting write access. Taking legal action if you violate the LICENSE. Wait, do they use Subversion? No they use Git.
- Where’s the repo? A page about read-write access. Doesn’t seem like I can get simply read access. (A HTTPS link is more convenient for me for read access, which is how I access all Git repositories which aren’t owned by any of my online accounts.)
- Forum is a mailing list. You can subscribe. No web archive apparently.
- There is a graph of lines of code added/deleted every week “since it first became version controlled” (Highcharts). It’s empty.
- There’s some heading “Contributors with a Github account” with nothing beneath it.
I won’t criticize an apparently university-managed homepage for any of this. But what am I supposed to learn from it in this context? Is this perhaps yet another “remember this, fellow in-the-knowers?” HN submission?
Nah, it's more of a "I wonder what folks have to say about this rarely-mentioned project" HN submission.
For the repo, I found that the Development page has a tab (at top left, doesn't really look like a tab, so easy to miss) named "GIT". That page has links to what looks like a self-hosted GitLab, as well as a GitHub mirror.
- News sidebar: 2022, 2022, 2021. So it’s not dead.
- “Development”. Stuff about policies and getting write access. Taking legal action if you violate the LICENSE. Wait, do they use Subversion? No they use Git.
- Where’s the repo? A page about read-write access. Doesn’t seem like I can get simply read access. (A HTTPS link is more convenient for me for read access, which is how I access all Git repositories which aren’t owned by any of my online accounts.)
- Issue tracker. Latest issues updated 1 month, 3 months, and 5 months ago.
- Forum is a mailing list. You can subscribe. No web archive apparently.
- There is a graph of lines of code added/deleted every week “since it first became version controlled” (Highcharts). It’s empty.
- There’s some heading “Contributors with a Github account” with nothing beneath it.
I won’t criticize an apparently university-managed homepage for any of this. But what am I supposed to learn from it in this context? Is this perhaps yet another “remember this, fellow in-the-knowers?” HN submission?